Re: What is the difference between patterns - "*|/" and "*"

[Tyler Baker <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keith Visco wrote:

> Tyler wrote:
> > My take on things is that:
> >
> > <xsl:template match="//*">
> >
> > is effectively the same as:
> >
> > <xsl:template match="*">
> >
> > However I don't think this is a legal pattern anyways because a
> > ComposeExpression does not start with the union operator.
>
> // is not the Union operator, but the Ancestry operator and starting a
> MatchExpr or SelectExpr with // is valid.
> | is the union operator.

Sorry I meant the ancestor operator (i.e. this was a brain far).  The //
produces a union of all nodes in a select pattern and I totally forgot that
the '|' was the union operator (I think of it more as an OR operator even
though it formally is not called this).

Thanx for the correction.

Tyler


 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list