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Subject: RE: [xsl] baffled by <xsl:template match="/">
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 20:00:09 +0100
> In Michael Kay's book, XSLT Programmer's Reference - 2nd 
> Edition, the top of
> page 75 says that the pattern "/" matches the root node.  I 
> have always been
> baffled by this, because I have never seen "/" match the root 
> node when
> using <xsl:template match="/">.  

Go back to page 57, which carefully explains what the root node is.

Michael Kay
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