RE: XSL file / "standalone" stylesheets - why not?

> An XSLT engine only needs one source node to process: a root 
> node. 

Not strictly true. XPath section 5: "XPath operates on an XML document as a
tree". The source tree always represents a well-formed XML document, so it
must include an element as a child of the root.

Mike Kay

Received on Friday, 14 January 2000 04:58:54 UTC