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Hi Joseph, > Why does this not select the name of the root *element* but > instead gives me the text value of that element, i.e., the > concatenated text values of every element in my document? > > <xsl:template match="/" > > <xsl:value-of select="(/node()[1])[name()]" /> > <xsl:apply-templates /> > </xsl:template> This returns the value of the first node child of the root node (see below), if it has a name (which, as an element, it does), which is its text content. Remember that anything within [] is a predicate and is used simply to filter the previous XPath step. > When I try select="/name()" (and variations thereof) I get > error messages from the xsl processor. The XPath "/" does not return the document element (the element in which all others are contained), but the root node, which is an abstract higher-level container which contains everything (including any comments, etc., which do not fall within the document element). It has no name, it just is (nominalist metaphysics notwithstanding). If you want the name of the document element, you want the first (and only) element child of "/"; that is <xsl:value-of select="name(/*)"/>. The fact that at the start of an XPath "/" means the root node, whereas anywhere else it is the step delimiter can be confusing. Hope that helps, Stuart XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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