RE: how to use // starting from the root, when i am few step

> <root>
>   <one>
>     <two>
>        <applytemplates select="what to put here if i
> want to start from the root//ten"

I am not sure what you mean here. (and there is a typo in
apply-templates name...). This does not make any sense either as a source
document or as a stylesheet.

One interpretation would be:
- source document -
<one>
  <two>
    <three/>
    ....
  </two>
  ...
      <ten/>
  ...
</one>
- - -
- stylesheet -
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
		xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
...
  <xsl:template match="two">
    <xsl:apply-template select="something that match the element ten
    wherever it may be in the source tree"/>
  </xsl:template>
...
</xsl:stylesheet>
- - -

Here the correct select attribute is select="//ten"

Using select=".//ten" would select any element named ten (in the null URI
namespace) which is at least a grandchildren of the context node (an
element named two, as says the match attribute of the xsl:template
element).


Another interpretation would be that your are using the simplified
stylesheet syntax (without an explicit <xsl:stylesheet> element).
But in this case you have to use a different name space for literal result
elements <one>, <two>, etc. and for the XSLT elements like
apply-templates.

So a meaningful stylesheet would be:

<root xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <one>
    <two>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="what to put here if i
want to start from the root//ten">
    </two>
    ...
  </one>
  <three>
    ...
    <ten> ... </ten>
    ...
  </three>
</root>

In this case you question has still no answer. What I understand is that
you are somehow trying to have a goto behavior.  If that is the case, do
not even think about it.  Goto is like variable assignement in XSLT: it
does not exist and that IS a feature.

If I still miss the point, could you be more precise about what you is you
data set and what you want to do ?

By the way, you should read a good book on XSLT.

Hope this helps.

                             -- David --


PS: As far as I know, select="///element... is not legal.



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