On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 18:26 -0800, Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote:
> These are recurring problems with the functional model, I understand.  

What are the problems? (Perhaps your universal primitive is a little
off?)

Use something else that fits your view of reality..?

> However, it would make more sense, to me at least, if the context  
> where more explicitly specified.

How do you imagine that to occur? How could it be more explicit?

ufff...



> 
> Steven
> 
> 
> On Jan 26, 2008, at 4:26 PM, David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> >
> >> not since surely "/" simply specifies the global processing scope in
> >> any case.
> >
> > / denotes the root of the current document, of which you have two.
> > when processing test.xml / denotes the root of that file, and when
> > processing include.xml it denotes the root of that.
> >
> > If you want to refer to the root of a different document you can not  
> > use
> > / you must store the document node in a variable, or refer t it via a
> > function such as doc().
> >
> > David