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 > (An odd omission, since it's very careful to make > the distinction in the case of attributes and elements.) Yes, I understood that distinction in the case of elements and attributes (and elements and namespaces, for that matter), and even the reason for it. My question was this: If the context node is a comment or PI, and you set the axis to parent::, do you get the containing element? or do you get the root node? (The question assumes that the comment/PI is within the root *element*; if in the prolog or after the close of the root element, the parent is the root node.) The spec says (in [5.2]) that PI and comment nodes are children of their containing elements but it does not say anything at all about whether those elements are considered parents of the PIs and/or comments that they contain. Common sense says that the relationship between parent and child(ren) "goes both ways" for comments/PIs, just as it does for *elements* which are children of other elements; however, the *spec* does not say that. Thanks for the reply, David. =================================================================== John E. Simpson | I spilled spot remover on my dog. simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx | He's gone now. http://www.flixml.org | (Stephen Wright) XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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