Re: How to insert a set nodes under the root of an ar

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Subject: Re: How to insert a set nodes under the root of an arbitrary XML using XSL?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:00:56 -0500

Hi again,

On 1/7/2011 4:49 PM, was written:

The first match I gave is a match on the document node; / is the root
node, /* is the document node, at least per XPath 2 terminology.  XPath
1 is of course using different terminology.:)

Not quite. "/" is both "the root node" (when you know what tree you're talking about" and "a document node" (when you don't).

/* (short for /child::*) is the "document element" of a well-formed XML instance, but we also see trees (for example, it's not uncommon in temporary trees) that have more than one element child of the root; and this XPath will select all of them.

Such trees can be serialized and called into documents as external parsed entities, but they won't be complete documents in themselves, due to the well-formedness constraint on the XML format.

Cheers,
Wendell


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Re: How to insert a set nodes under the root of an arbitrary XML using XSL?, (continued) Graydon - 7 Jan 2011 21:16:31 -0000 Graydon - 7 Jan 2011 21:27:51 -0000 Beck, Jeff (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E] - 7 Jan 2011 21:39:33 -0000 Graydon - 7 Jan 2011 21:49:29 -0000 Wendell Piez - 7 Jan 2011 22:01:04 -0000 <= Graydon - 8 Jan 2011 00:24:53 -0000 Wendell Piez - 7 Jan 2011 21:51:35 -0000

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