guess my question should have been:
what nodes in the DOM representation have no equivalent in the XPath data
model?
just excluding doctype nodes works fine for me now, though i'll have a
proper comparative look at the two specs sometime soon.

thanks,

/m

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, David Carlisle wrote:
>
> > <xsl:copy-of/> will not copy XML comments or processing
> > instructions because they are not XML elements, and they are not part of the
> > XML Infoset. Hope that helps.
>
> copy-of does copy comments and pis as they do correspond to nodes in the
> xpath tree (and the infoset)
>
> David
>
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