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Re: Confused about "/.." pattern
- From: Johannes Döbler <jd at aztecrider dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:52:44 +0200
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Confused about "/.." pattern
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>I'm a little confused about the interpretation of the pattern, "/.." My
>feeble knowledge of XSLT would parse this as the parent of the root, but
>that doesn't make any sense to me. Any help on what I'm missing would be
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Paul
Paul,
"/.." is one convenient way to specify an empty node-set since the root has
no parent.
regards,
Johannes
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