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Re: Confused about "/.." pattern


Hi Paul,

it's correct: "/.." selects the parent of the root, which does not exist and 
is so a guarantee for an empty nodeset. It's often used as default value for 
  a param, so you can be sure a nodeset is sent via <xsl:with-param/> or not.

Regards,

Joerg

paul morgan wrote:
> I'm a little confused about the interpretation of the pattern, "/.." My feeble knowledge of XSLT would parse this as the parent of the root, but that doesn't make any sense to me.  Any help on what I'm missing would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul

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