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Re: Getting the root element.

Subject: Re: Getting the root element.
From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 24 Jul 2003 12:09:21 +0200
getting root element in xml
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:51, Simon Kelly wrote:
> Q:
> When deep within the structure (In my case recursing down a branch) what it
> the most elegent way of getting the document root node?

The document root is just "/" and the document element (sometimes called
"root element") is "/*".

Hope this helps.

Eric (wondering if this is elegant!)
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