RE: [xsl] baffled by <xsl:template match="/">

["Kenny Akridge" <kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aha!  I think I read that briefly several months ago, but forgot it.  I've
always guessed that it was this way, but did not know the real answer for
certain.  Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhk@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 3:00 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] baffled by <xsl:template match="/">

> 
> 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