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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8131 XPath in a stylesheet only finds nodes below start node Summary: XPath in a stylesheet only finds nodes below start node Product: XalanJ2 Version: 2.2.x Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: Other Component: Xalan AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the input document: <top> <settings>10</settings> <order> <line> <item>spoon</item> <quantity>20</quantity> </line> <line> <item>fork</item> <quantity>10</quantity> </line> </order> </top> and the stylesheet <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> <xsl:template match="order"> <xsl:value-of select="../settings"/> settings <xsl:value-of select="sum(line/quantity)"/> pieces </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Begin the transformation at the "order" node. One would expect the output: 10 settings 30 pieces But the actual output is settings 30 pieces because "../settings" doesn;t match anything. In fact, no XPath expression, relative or absolute, matches anything outside the subtree headed by "order". This is contrary to the XPath 1.0 spec, which states "/ matches the root node of the document containing the context node." Note that Saxon produces the correct output.
