Re: Root of a not-yet-parsed document?

Subject: Re: Root of a not-yet-parsed document?
From: James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 17:12:55 +0700
Chris Maden wrote:

> So that's the practical answer.  The more interesting, but not
> immediately useful, theoretical question is: What if I couldn't?  What
> if I needed to access some property of the root node of the document
> outside of an node context?  What would I do?

You can't. If you're not in a "node context", conceptualy there isn't
any source document available: a stylesheet can be compiled once and
used with multiple source documents.

James



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