Re: Pattern Question

    1. <xsl:template match="/"> =Matches Root Element
No. It matches the root node which is not an element. It corresponds to
the whol edocument. There is no "root element" in Xpath terminology.


    2. <xsl:template match="*|@"> =Matches all element nodes or attributes.
no, it's a syntax error. You want @*

    Used to copy XMl into Source tree.
Not necessarily (or even usually), it depends what the template does,

  3. <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> = Not exactly sure how this pattern
  behaves.

node() is short for child::node() and the only difference between this
and child::* (or *) is that it maches comments, text and processing
instruction nodes as well as element nodes.


    Appears to match all nodes or child nodes?

Not sure what you mean here, all element attribute and processing
instruction nodes are child nodes of some other node.

David

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