Re: apply-templates and Ful XML Path

Subject: Re: apply-templates and Ful XML Path
From: Jeni Tennison <Jeni.Tennison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:06:59 +0100
Matt,

>Does anyone know why I must specify the full path in an apply-templates
>instruction inside the root template?

You are confusing the 'root node' and the 'document element'.  The root
node is basically the node representing the document itself, whereas the
document element is the element node representing the element that has all
other elements within the document as children.

In a match="/" template, the context node (from which relative paths are
resolved) is the root node, *not* the document element, which is why you're
having problems.

See Section 5.1 (Root Node) of the XPath Recommendation
[http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath]

Cheers,

Jeni


Dr Jeni Tennison
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