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Thanks, Andrew for the clarification. In this particular problem, since the context node was an element, therefore ancestor:: axis would certainly have only element nodes. So ancestor::node() will work for this particular example. You rightly explained this :) But I thought, explicitly specifying the kind of nodes (say, with .., * or element()) once must search on an XPath axis is a good design principle with XSLT programs. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <pedant> > > I agree that in general using node() when really you mean element() is > a poor choice, however on the ancestor axis it's probably not going to > make that much difference.... In the vast majority of cases the only > type of nodes that exist on the ancestor axis are elements (and the > single document node). > > </pedant> -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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