Re: XSLT/XPATH jargon

["John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:13 PM 01/20/2000 +0000, Pawson, David wrote:
> I've 'lifted' various definitions from various places to try and put
> together a jargon buster for XSLT.

Excellent idea!

(I haven't seen this acronym yet, but it might be worth inventing: NTFP, 
for "Name the Fine [XSL] Processor" you're using when posting a question to 
XSL-List. ;)

> DOCUMENT ORDER: Normally top down, left to right traversal
> of the document tree. [...]

Need to include any sort of statement wrt internationalization?

> NODE TEST: A node test identifies a type of node in the
> document, the simplest type being an element name.

Describe significance of the word "test" here?

> NODE TYPE: There are seven node types: element, attribute,
> text, processing instruction, comment, namespace, and
> root. These are: the elements, attributes, text, processing
> instructions, and comments in a document. Namespace nodes
> represent the namespaces used in the document. The root node
> is the root of the document. In every XML document, there is
> exactly one root node, which the node that contains the
> (optional) prologue and the document element.

Does the root node also include the (optional) "epilog"?

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