- From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:12:33 +0100
- To: "'xsl-list@mulberrytech.com'" <xsl-list@mulberrytech.com>
- Cc: "Xsl Editors (E-mail)" <xsl-editors@w3.org>
> Within XSLT and XPATH, what, if any, purpose does this > seperation of root node and document element serve? > We know it confuses. The separation of concepts is essential, because the root node can have other children besides the document element, e.g. comments and processing instructions; in fact in a result tree fragment it can also have text nodes and multiple element children. The unnecessary confusion is the inconsistent terminology between the DOM, XML, and XPath specs. Mike Kay
Received on Wednesday, 20 September 2000 08:14:55 UTC