Re: baffled by <xsl:template match="/">

In Michael Kay's book, XSLT Programmer's Reference - 2nd Edition, the top of
page 75 says that the pattern "/" matches the root node.  I have always been
baffled by this, because I have never seen "/" match the root node when
using <xsl:template match="/">.

For instance, just using this XLM:

<root>
</root>

Cheers,
Wendell

and the following XSL

----------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
        Match = "/" -
        <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
        Match = "/" -
----------------------------------------

and

----------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="*">
        Match = "/*"
        <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
        Match = "/*"
        root
----------------------------------------

This would appear to me that an implicit root node of
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?> is actually the root.

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