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..but it is used in the description for base-uri(), name(), local-name(), namespace-uri(), lang(), root() with the sentence "If the context item is not a node, an error is raised:[err:XPTY0006]"
The joint WGs agreed in the telcon on 6-7-2005 to change the error for "context item is not a node" to an F&O error. As suggested by Jerome, this should be a type error. See (member-only) mail: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xsl-query/2005May/0032.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xsl-query/2005May/0035.html Ashok Malhotra
Changing status from the rarely-used VERIFIED to CLOSED.