RE: Re: XPath expression confusion

> The root node can have any number of children (which is
> why XPath has the concept of a root node at all) top level comments and
> PIs are children of the root node, and while it is true that a well
> formed document will only have a single top level element node, XPath
> actually models parsed entities (aka XML fragments) and allows multiple
> element nodes, and text nodes, to appear as children of /.

When I said " and the 'root element' is always the only child of '/'", I was thinking in terms of elements in an XML document and not comments, processing instructions, or of XPath. Of course, you are correct.
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