I think you're not making difference between a match pattern and an XPath
expression. Match paterns are only a restricted subset of the set of
syntactically correct XPath expressions.
As Wendell pointed out, this distinction is at the heart of XSLT.
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
"David Tolpin" <dvd(_at_)davidashen(_dot_)net> wrote in message
news:200312021106(_dot_)hB2B6cZg057162(_at_)adat(_dot_)davidashen(_dot_)net(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)
David> Because not specifying an axis is the same as specifying
David> child:: axis. There is no context in wich the root node
David> resides on the child axis.
David> self::node() in the context of the root element will match
David> the root node.
It would, but the 'self::' axis isn't allowed in patterns.
<xsl:transform
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="self::node()">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
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