There seems to be a variety of usage in the term "root" in the context of XML
documents. While it is true that "/" represents the document's "root node", the
child of "/" is commonly referred to as the "root element".
Since the person who asked the question clearly wanted to know if "system" was
the top-level element in my document (and therefore the child of "/"), I
answered "yes", although, as you point out, the "root node" is always "/", and
the "root element" is always the only child of "/".
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Charles Knell
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From: David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
Sent: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:47:02 GMT
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath expression confusion
Yes, "system" is the root node.
No, it's the child of the root node. The root node is selected by / and
is never an element it represents the logical root of the document.
David
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