Re: XSL Abbreviations

["Ben Pickering" <benjaminpickering at hotmail dot com>]

>Just reading the XPath docs wrong, that's all. // is equivalent to
>/descendant-or-self::node()/ - note the leading and trailing slashes. You
>could try ..//.[generate-id(.) = $node]

I tried you suggestion, but it doesn't seem to work, at least in XT.

Plus, can you explain the siginificance of the slashes, for curiosity's 
sake:  I get that the leading '/' selects the document root (which is why 
you need to say './/' rather than just '//' for the context node's parent; 
the '//' includes a built-in '/' in front of descendant-or-self.)

But I don't see the significance of the trailing slash.  Surely this just 
acts to select all the children of nodes matching descendant-or-self, thus 
providing the same effect as descendant?

Why is this behaviour appropriate to '//'?  Can I just take this as meaning 
'descendant', (but selecting all descendant nodes and NOT self at all)?

Regards,
Ben.
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