> 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.

You'll find a comparison in chap 2 of my XSLT Programmers Reference. 

Mike Kay

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