> 
> thanks that worked..
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dion Houston [mailto:dionh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:31 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  select all elements except root
> 
> 
> Well, I would think this would work:
> 
> <xsl:template match="*[..]">
> 
> This takes advantage of the fact that the root has no parent...

No it *[..] is the same a *. Every element in an XML document has a
parent. the parent of the top level element is the root node /.

/ has no parent, but it does not match *.

David

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