Re: p:insert matches documents and elements?

/ Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> was heard to say:
| On 4/22/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
|>
|> Should p:insert fail if the target matches something that isn't
|> a document or element? If not, what should it do?
|
| Yes.  It should fail when the target is not an element or document.  If the
| target is a document, the at-start option doesn't mean anything.  It will
| replace the document element.

In that case, I think I'd prefer to make matching the document node
an error. That's (a) completely different semantics and (b) easily
done with other steps.

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                                          norm

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