-----Original Message----- From: saxo...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:saxo...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Sal Mangano Sent: 13 November 2004 21:07 To: saxo...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [saxon] Bug in 8.1? Cannot select a node here: the context item is an atomic value.

Here is a fragment of an XSLT transform I am writing to parse some unstructured text:

<xsl:when test="string-length($input) &lt; 50 and matches($input,'^By [\w\s.,]+ and [\w\s.]+$')"> <xsl:variable name="author" select="tokenize($input,'(and|,)','i')" as="xs:string*"/> <art:ByLine> <xsl:for-each select="$author"> <xsl:variable name="name" select="if (position() = 1) then substring(.,3) else ." as="xs:string"/>

<!--THIS LINE CAUSES THE ERROR MESSAGE --> <xsl:variable name="email" select="if (key('AuthorKey',$name)) then key('AuthorKey',$name)/email else 'webm...@somewhere.com'" as="xs:string"/>

<art:Author> <art:name><xsl:value-of select="$name"/></art:name> <art:email><xsl:value-of select="$email"/></art:email> </art:Author> </xsl:for-each> </art:ByLine> </xsl:when>

The line indicated causes the following error:

Error on line 1048575 Cannot select a node here: the context item is an atomic value.

Now, at the very least, the line number is bogus because this XSLT file only has 202 lines. Second, I am not sure why I can't set a variable using key() just because the Context node is atomic. The problem seems related to the use of key() because if I remove key() and replace with some dummy expression the error goes away.

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