Re: seriously trivial question about processing the ro

>   at least in the above example, it seems to be little
> more than aesthetics.  is this accurate?

as always in xslt, it depends on what the other templates are.
Usually it's just a matter of style, I usually use a match of /
on a template that's generating the top level output as it's
just easier to find later. but it can make a difference
if there are for example templates copying comments from the input to
the result and you don't want top level comments copied matching on /
and directing apply templates to the element node and ignoring top level
comments and pis is one way to achieve that.

David

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