Subject: RE: [xsl] Getting attribute from rootnode...? From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:35:38 -0000 |
> Does what your mail say, imply that /*/@RootAttributeValue > actually searches > through every 3 child nodes (in your example) looking for the > attribute? "/*" selects all the ELEMENT children of the root node (in a well-formed document there will be exactly one), and the next step "/@att" looks among the attributes of that element. If you wrote /node()/@RootAttributeValue you would get the same answer, but the processor would then have to look for attributes of comments and processing instructions as well, unless it was clever enough to notice in advance that such things can't exist. Of course the actual algorithm is up to the processor, if it wanted to it could search all the attributes in the document and test which of them belonged to the document element.... but it's unlikely. Mike Kay > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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