Re: Finding the root element

["W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:17 AM 10/30/98 +0000, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>"W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> How could root rules be useful if you didn't have the grove root available?
>> If the standard as published doesn't provide for it, then the standard is
>> broken and needs to be fixed. 
>
>I think Norm never mentioned the key point here:  The DSSSL standard
>provides (current-root), which clearly would provide the needed node
>within (root ...) or elsewhere.  It happens that Jade doesn't
>include this procedure in the subset of DSSSL it implements, hence
>Norm's problem.

Ah.

Still, I think it is logical that current-node should be the grove root in
a root rule.

Cheers,

E.

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