Not quite. match="node()" is short for match="child::node()", so it will
only match nodes that are children of something: viz elements, text
nodes, comments, and PIs.
In other words match="node()" wont match the root node, but not
because the root node is explicitely excluded but because the
root node doesn't have a parent. Correct?
Because not specifying an axis is the same as specifying child:: axis.
There is no context in wich the root node resides on the child axis.
self::node() in the context of the root element will match the root node.
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