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Subject: Re: RE: [xsl] DOM and XML parser
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:56:53 -0600 (MDT)
Didier PH Martin wrote:
> Exact. Sorry I forgot to say that the match attribute's value is valid
> only for an Xpath subset. The subset that refers to a single node.
> So to recap:
> a) the match attribute uses a subset of Xpath. A subset used to locate a
> particular node. The result set of a match is a singleton (i.e. a single
> entity)

Well, sort of. The match attribute is not evaluated to produce a result.
It is just saying "this template can be used to process a node, if that
node matches this pattern". Not the same thing as saying "go get me a node
that matches this pattern".

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