Re: [xsl] Which patterns will select the root node?

[Oleg Tkachenko <oleg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dimitre Novatchev wrote:

> node() matches the root node, for example in the following XPath expression:
>
>      ancestor::node()

But again, not in a pattern. XSLT spec explicitly says

"node() matches any node other than an attribute node and the root node"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#patterns

Btw, here is another pattern that matches root node :o)

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
  <xsl:key name="mykey" match="/" use="'root'"/>
  <xsl:template match="key('mykey', 'root')">
	...
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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