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That helps a lot. Since I only wanted a list of child elements, I was probably picking up junk that didn't belong in the list when using node(). Stuart Zakon stuart_zakon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:47 AM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: seeking clarification on node() > child::* and node() The child:: axis is the default in either case so child::* is the same as * and child::node() is the same as node() in the child axis, * just matches element nodes, but node() matches all kinds of nodes including text and comments. <x> <a> ,, </a> <!-- ljhg --> words <b/> </x> then if you are on x select="*" gives you two nodes, elemnts a and b select="node()" gives you 7 nodes white space text elemnt a white space text comment ljhg text " .. words .." elemnt b white space text David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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