RE: Confused about "/.." pattern

Hi Paul,

you're completely right, "/.." is the parent of the root, which doesn't make
sense, ie it's always empty. That's why people use it to set up parameters
that are empty by default

<xsl:param name="initiallyBlank" select="/.."/>

I've never tried using select="" having always followed sheep-like in the
paths of wiser people, so I don't know what it would do.

Regards,
Tom Weissmann

-----Original Message-----
From: paul morgan [mailto:pmorg@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 May 2002 16:17
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Confused about "/.." pattern


I'm a little confused about the interpretation of the pattern, "/.."  My
feeble knowledge of XSLT would parse this as the parent of the root, but
that doesn't make any sense to me.  Any help on what I'm missing would be
appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul


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