RE: [xsl] xslt 2.0, use case wanted.

["Willink, Ed" <Ed.Willink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I can't see any need to have any new syntax to specify such a starting
> node (The facility that it is set outside the stylesheet was 
> already in
> XSLT1) IF you need this set in the stylesheet just go
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>  <xsl:apply-templates select="/part/book/chapter/sect1[3]/sect2[4]"/>
> 
> 
> which has the same effect in a much more obvious way.

Surely the point of specifying a starting node would be to operate
on a sub-document so that in your example /part/book/index would
be invisible to the XSLT processing. Your 'equivalent' syntax requires
the whole document to exist in memory.

	Regards
			
		Ed Willink

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