On 1/18/09, G. Ken Holman <gkholman(_at_)cranesoftwrights(_dot_)com> wrote:
At 2009-01-17 12:23 +0100, Alain wrote:
My second one might be easier!
Let's say I have an XML like this
<?xml version="1.0">
<root>
<!-- Any number of nodes here -->
</root>
As a valid XML document can have only one "main" node,
Called the "document element".
what is the architectural and practical difference between
<xsl:template select="/">
and
<xsl:template select="/root">
First, it would be match="/" and match="/root", and needing to match
on the document node is important to access the XML prologue and any
content after the document element in the instance:
<?xml version="1.0">
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="over-there.xsl">
<?owner jsmith>
<root>
</root>
<!--copyright notice here-->
The root node in the above document has 4 child nodes.
There is also the case of XML schemas which can have different root
nodes. For example in TEI (http://www.tei-c.org/) we have both TEI
(containing a single text) and teiCorpus (containing a corpus of
texts). "/" will match either of these. "/teiCorpus" or "/TEI" only
match one or the other.
cheers
stuart
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