Sorry. I actually meant the outmost root element. I was thinking the "/"
represent the document node. So if the <system> is not the root element,
the absolute path starts with "/" would return an empty sequence.
Lisa
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From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk]
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath expression confusion
Is the <system> a root node?
element nodes are never root nodes in Xpath.
David
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