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Re: Confused about "/.." pattern
- From: "David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM" <david_n_bertoni at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 08:45:45 -0700
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Confused about "/.." pattern
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
You're correct, it _does_ mean the parent of root, which doesn't exist.
It's the "canonical" way of selecting an empty node-set. This is directly
from the XSLT recommendation:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#variable-values
By the way, it's not a pattern -- it's a location path. "/.." is not a
legal match pattern.
Dave
"paul morgan"
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rrytech.com
05/16/2002 08:17 AM
Please respond to xsl-list
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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