Re: [xsl] How to insert a set nodes under the root of an arbitrary XML using XSL?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again,

On 1/7/2011 4:49 PM, was written:
> The first match I gave is a match on the document node; / is the root
> node, /* is the document node, at least per XPath 2 terminology.  XPath
> 1 is of course using different terminology.:)

Not quite. "/" is both "the root node" (when you know what tree you're 
talking about" and "a document node" (when you don't).

/* (short for /child::*) is the "document element" of a well-formed XML 
instance, but we also see trees (for example, it's not uncommon in 
temporary trees) that have more than one element child of the root; and 
this XPath will select all of them.

Such trees can be serialized and called into documents as external 
parsed entities, but they won't be complete documents in themselves, due 
to the well-formedness constraint on the XML format.

Cheers,
Wendell


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