> I was just wondering why this "design
> pattern" was typically described using "document('')//node()" when
> "//node()" seemed to be more correct.

Because in a typical scenario, the stylesheet author knows how many nodes
there are in the stylesheet, but has no idea how many there will be in the
source document.

Mike Kay
Software AG


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