On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 11:57:40AM +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > > there's nothing really strange with this. select is fully supported on
> > > apply-templates. however you are trying to select "item" children of the
> > > root node which only has one child, named "rdf:RDF". when you remove the
> > > select attribute, this child gets processed implicitly, which means that
> > > its children are processed one by one (this is the default rule) and
> > > that's why your second template catches them.
> >
> > What do u mean?? rdf:RDF seems the root node to me. What do u consider to be
> > the root node then??
>
> In XPath/XSLT the root node is virtual, under that you have any
> comments and processing instructions before the "document root", and then
> you have the document root node, finally optionally followed by any
> comments after the close of the document root node.
Ok, i understand. I though selecting "/" would be selecting THE root
element. This was my reasoning.
There can be only one root element, and before root elements the only thing
that can exist is comments and processing instructions. Since we can't
manipulate (or can we?) those in XSLT, there is no sense in accessing the
stylesheet entire structure.
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