Re: Wrapping of nodes into a document

On 10/3/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
>
> / 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.


Thanks Norm, that's where I was going, so in this case, your proposal seems
to propose different behavior for (NO @select)  and for  (@select="/")
Is this intended ?

Mohamed


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