Re: Confused about "/.." pattern

You're correct, it _does_ mean the parent of root, which doesn't exist.
It's the "canonical" way of selecting an empty node-set.  This is directly
from the XSLT recommendation:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#variable-values

By the way, it's not a pattern -- it's a location path.  "/.." is not a
legal match pattern.

Dave



                                                                                                                                                      
                      "paul morgan"                                                                                                                   
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I'm a little confused about the interpretation of the pattern, "/.."  My
feeble knowledge of XSLT would parse this as the parent of the root, but
that doesn't make any sense to me.  Any help on what I'm missing would be
appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul


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