Re: apply-templates and Ful XML Path

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

At 01:25 PM 5/16/2000 -0400, Matthew Cordes wrote:
> <xsl:template match="/">
>      <!-- ** this doesn't work, but it should, right? ** -->
>      <xsl:apply-template select="ChildOfRoot"/>

I don't know what your input document looks like. But remember that 
match="/" doesn't match the root ELEMENT, but the root NODE. This is the 
abstract thing which contains everything in the document (including the 
prolog e.g.). The root NODE has only one child, the root ELEMENT; based on 
your line:
>      <xsl:apply-template select=/ROOTNODE/AnotherChildofRoot"/>
that one child is, I would guess, the ROOTNODE element. So in order to make 
your plain old "ChildOfRoot" select statement work, you'd need a template 
rule which matches not on "/", but on "/ROOTNODE".

HTH.


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