Re: Wrapping of nodes into a document

/ Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> was heard to say:
| On 10/2/07, Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com> wrote:
|>
|> Ok but it suddently raise a question in my mind
|>
|> Suppose this is the content of a document
|> <?xml version="1.0"?>
|> <?my-py I like it ?>
|> <!-- my comment -->
|> <root />
|> <!-- my comment -->
|> <?my-py I like it ?>
|>
|> If I make a for-each on it, I will loose the PI and the comments, right ?
|
| You shouldn't because they are the children of the document.  The XML
| processing instruction isn't present as a child according to the infoset
| and so shouldn't be preserved when wrapped.

In the context of this thread, I thought Mohamed was asking if the PIs
and comments would be lost if his for-each was:

   <for-each select="root"/>

And I think the answer then is yes. If the for-each doesn't have a
select expression, then the whole document, PIs, comments, and all
goes through.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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