[xsl] seriously trivial question about processing the root element

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  more than one book i've been reading has presented examples
of processing an XML document whose document element is, say,
<doc>, with:

  <xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:apply-templates select="doc"/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="doc">
   ....etc etc ...

  if one assumes that an XML document will have a single
document element anyway, is there any value to the template
that matches "/", if one is going to start processing at 
the document root anyway?

  at least in the above example, it seems to be little
more than aesthetics.  is this accurate?

rday


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