Re: combining multiple documents

Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote:

  Hi

> I am mystified why this works and a simple key reference does
> not since surely "/" simply specifies the global processing
> scope in any case.

  I don't know what you mean by "the global processing scope"
but "/" is defined as following by [XPath 2.0] "3.2 Path
Expressions" http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-path-expressions:

    A "/" at the beginning of a path expression is an
    abbreviation for the initial step fn:root(self::node()) treat
    as document-node()/

  Stated informally, that means the document node that the
current item belongs to.

  Regards,

--drkm

























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