The root node can have any number of children (which is
why XPath has the concept of a root node at all) top level comments and
PIs are children of the root node, and while it is true that a well
formed document will only have a single top level element node, XPath
actually models parsed entities (aka XML fragments) and allows multiple
element nodes, and text nodes, to appear as children of /.
When I said " and the 'root element' is always the only child of '/'", I was
thinking in terms of elements in an XML document and not comments, processing
instructions, or of XPath. Of course, you are correct.
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