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In Michael Kay's book, XSLT Programmer's Reference - 2nd Edition, the top of page 75 says that the pattern "/" matches the root node. I have always been baffled by this, because I have never seen "/" match the root node when using <xsl:template match="/">. For instance, just using this XLM: <root> </root> and the following XSL ---------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> Match = "/" - <xsl:value-of select="name()"/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Output: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?> Match = "/" - ---------------------------------------- and ---------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="*"> Match = "/*" <xsl:value-of select="name()"/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Output: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?> Match = "/*" root ---------------------------------------- This would appear to me that an implicit root node of <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?> is actually the root. What am I missing? By the way, this is using MSXML4 and .NET XslTransform
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