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> > The XSLT 2.0 spec talks about "parentless elements". As far > as I know, there can only be one element in a source document > that is parentless - the document node. Yet, the XSLT 2.0 > spec seems to suggest that there may be other parentless > element nodes. Can someone tell me what they may be? As David Carlisle explained, they are nodes that are not part of any document. For example, you can create a set of three parentless attribute nodes as: <xsl:variable name="trio" as="attribute()*"> <xsl:attribute name="colour">red</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="size">big</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="mood">happy</xsl:attribute> </xsl:attribute> and you can then attach this to an element using: <e> <xsl:copy-of select="$trio"/> </e> and of course you can do the same with element nodes rather than attributes. Michael Kay
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