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Re: apply-templates and Ful XML Path
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- Subject: Re: apply-templates and Ful XML Path
- From: "John E. Simpson" <simpson at polaris dot net>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:19:43 -0400
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At 01:25 PM 5/16/2000 -0400, Matthew Cordes wrote:
><xsl:template match="/">
> <!-- ** this doesn't work, but it should, right? ** -->
> <xsl:apply-template select="ChildOfRoot"/>
I don't know what your input document looks like. But remember that
match="/" doesn't match the root ELEMENT, but the root NODE. This is the
abstract thing which contains everything in the document (including the
prolog e.g.). The root NODE has only one child, the root ELEMENT; based on
your line:
> <xsl:apply-template select=/ROOTNODE/AnotherChildofRoot"/>
that one child is, I would guess, the ROOTNODE element. So in order to make
your plain old "ChildOfRoot" select statement work, you'd need a template
rule which matches not on "/", but on "/ROOTNODE".
HTH.
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