Hi Bruce,
Sorry for not being clear enough, but I had meant to ask "why are
patterns like (foo) or (/child::foo) considered invalid patterns as
per XSLT specification ?"
Curious  as to whether this kind of a pattern breaks any semantics of XSLT .
rgds,
Menon


On 5/2/05, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/2/05, Ramkumar Menon <ramkumar.menon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I run into a compilation error while using this stylesheet..
> >
> >   <xsl:template match="(/)">
> >     <o1:NeverPrints/>
> >   </xsl:template>
>
> It should be just "/", in the same way that it's "foo" not "(foo)".
>
> Bruce
>
>


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