At 19:16 11/04/2003 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
ancestor::*[1] selects the immediate ancestor (the parent)
(ancestor::*)[1] selects the ultimate ancestor (the document element)
Are you sure?
The ultimate ancestor (or ancestor first in document order)
is the document
node in XSLT 2.0 (root node in XSLT 1.0) not the document
element as you
suggest above.
I used ancestor::* not ancestor::node() in my example.
Michael Kay
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