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RE: Possible MSXML 3 / 4 bug: using a for-each on xsl:variable / tree-frag is misbehaving


yes it does, thanks a lot for your help Joerg.

-Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Heinicke [mailto:joerg.heinicke@gmx.de]
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 10:41 AM
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: Re: [xsl] Possible MSXML 3 / 4 bug: using a for-each on
xsl:variable / tree-frag is misbehaving


Hi Jeff,

you only have a RTF, if you construct one, e.g. in a variable as your 
example. You are operating on it because of
<xsl:for-each select="msxsl:node-set($items)/item">, so you switch the 
context to another "document", here the temporary tree.

Your second for-each works, because you don't switch the context to another 
document.

 > I thought that each time you execute a "select" that you're dealing with
an
 > RTF, regardless if the "select-or" is an xsl:for-each element or an
 > xsl:variable element.

That's not correct, you always deal with a node-set, but not a RTF. The 
msxml extension function node-set() converts the constructed RTF to a 
node-set, because you can't operate with XPATH on a RTF. But this means too,

that switching the document has nothing to do with a RTF. For example 
changing your first test with the variable to
<xsl:variable name="items" select="//item"/>
(which is much better than the RTF, because you don't need conversions and 
processor dependend extension function),
you will have the same problem with the context.

Hope this makes some things clearer.

Joerg


Jeff Beadle wrote:
> Hey Joerg,
> 
> Thanks for the quick response, and I'm very please it's the problem was
just
> in my lack of understanding RTFs.
> 
> However, why does the second for-each loop (the control loop in my
> "experiment") work?  
> 
> I guess what the second for-each is operating on (it's context) is not an
> RTF?  If it's not then what is it?  What's its object structure?  
> 
> I thought that each time you execute a "select" that you're dealing with
an
> RTF, regardless if the "select-or" is an xsl:for-each element or an
> xsl:variable element.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joerg Heinicke [mailto:joerg.heinicke@gmx.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 10:08 AM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Possible MSXML 3 / 4 bug: using a for-each on
> xsl:variable / tre e-frag is misbehaving
> 
> 
> Hello Jeff,
> 
> sorry, but it isn't a bug. You already said the solution: "given
for-each's 
> context". You are switching the context to another XML tree (the RTF) 
> instead of the original document. What you can do is a second for-each 
> inside the first switching the context back to oringial document or simply

> accessing the original document stored in a variable:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="orig" select="/"/>
> 
>  >    <xsl:template match="/">
>  >       <output>
>  >          <xsl:variable name="items" >
>  >             <xsl:copy-of select="//item"/>
>  >          </xsl:variable>
>  >          <xsl:for-each select="msxsl:node-set($items)/item">
>  >             <using_msxsl_node-set child-id="{@id}">
> 
>  >                <xsl:copy-of select="$orig/xml/an-element"/>
>                                        ^^^^^
> 
> or
> 
>                <xsl:for-each select="$orig">
>                   <xsl:copy-of select="/xml/an-element"/>
>                </xsl:for-each>
> 
>  >             </using_msxsl_node-set>
>  >          </xsl:for-each>
>  >          <xsl:for-each select="//item">
>  >             <NOT_using_msxsl_node-set child-id="{@id}">
>  >                <xsl:copy-of select="/xml/an-element"/>
>  >             </NOT_using_msxsl_node-set>
>  >          </xsl:for-each>
>  >       </output>
>  >    </xsl:template>
>  > </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joerg
> 
> 
> Jeff Beadle wrote:
> 
>>Howdy all,
>>
>>I looked through the archives and went to Microsoft's msxml site and
>>couldn't find any "PRB" or "BUG" reports regarding this "issue".
>>
>>Here's what I'm seeing:  Within an xsl:for-each element, where the select
> 
> is
> 
>>made against an xsl:variable tree-frag, xpath statements are failing to
>>nodes outside of the given for-each's context.
>>
>>
>>Here's the xml:
>>
>><?xml version="1.0"?>
>><xml>
>><an-element>
>>   <child id="child01"/>
>>   <child id="child02"/>
>></an-element>
>><collection>
>>   <item id="item01"/>
>>   <item id="item02"/>
>></collection>
>></xml>
>>
>>
>>Here's the xslt:
>>
>><?xml version="1.0" ?>
>><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
>>      xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
>>      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>>   <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8"/>
>>   <xsl:template match="/">
>>      <output>
>>         <xsl:variable name="items" >
>>            <xsl:copy-of select="//item"/>
>>         </xsl:variable>
>>         <xsl:for-each select="msxsl:node-set($items)/item">
>>            <using_msxsl_node-set child-id="{@id}">
>>               <xsl:copy-of select="/xml/an-element"/>
>>            </using_msxsl_node-set>
>>         </xsl:for-each>
>>         <xsl:for-each select="//item">
>>            <NOT_using_msxsl_node-set child-id="{@id}">
>>               <xsl:copy-of select="/xml/an-element"/>
>>            </NOT_using_msxsl_node-set>
>>         </xsl:for-each>
>>      </output>
>>   </xsl:template>
>></xsl:stylesheet>
>>
>>
>>Here's the output (I get):
>>
>><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
>><output>
>>   <using_msxsl_node-set child-id="item01" />
>>   <using_msxsl_node-set child-id="item02" />
>>   <NOT_using_msxsl_node-set child-id="item01">
>>      <an-element>
>>         <child id="child01" />
>>         <child id="child02" />
>>      </an-element>
>>   </NOT_using_msxsl_node-set>
>>   <NOT_using_msxsl_node-set child-id="item02">
>>      <an-element>
>>         <child id="child01" />
>>         <child id="child02" />
>>      </an-element>
>>   </NOT_using_msxsl_node-set>
>></output>
>>
>>
>>If this is not a user error/bug and truly is a bug within msxml, then this
>>one really sucks.
>>
>>
>>I can think of workarounds but they're a major pain in the you-know-what.
>>
>>... oh, and for those will immediately ask:  "Can you re-design the code
> 
> not
> 
>>to use a variable?"  Nope, I can't ...  well, I'm pretty sure I can't.
>>Within the real code, I have to build and work with temporary
>>objects/results.
>>
>>
>>So, has anyone encountered this "issue"?
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jeff
> 
> 
> 


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