RE: [xsl] XPath expression confusion

["Xia Li" <xli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry. I actually meant the outmost root element. I was thinking the "/"
represent the document node. So if the <system> is not the root element,
the absolute path starts with "/" would return an empty sequence.

Lisa


-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:49 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath expression confusion


> Is the <system> a root node?

element nodes are never root nodes in Xpath.

David

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