> 
> Either way, I have a file which when used with the above 
> prolog shortened to
> 
> <?xml version = "1.0" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE svg  SYSTEM "path/to/myLocalCopyOf/SVG-19991203.dtd">
> 
> No element below the root is triggering any of the templates....

Weird. Can't think of any legitimate reason for this. What XSLT processor
and XML parser are you using?

> btw, if / is the root template, whats the 'outermost' 
> container called, in this case <svg> ? 

I call it the "outermost element". In DOM it's called the "document
element". XML section 2.1 says "There is exactly one element, the
<b>root</b>, or document element, no part of which...

XPath uses the term "root" for what the DOM calls the "document", and it
doesn't have a name for the outermost element, because there doesn't have to
be one (XPath works on what the XML Fragments proposal calls a "well
balanced document", which XSLT calls an "external general parsed entity" -
i.e. not only on well-formed documents).

Shame that these committees don't talk to each other.

Mike Kay


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