Hi Stefan,
  Root node is an imaginary point. It does not exixt
physically.. "It logically exists above all the nodes
in XML document" .. "It does not have any attribute"
.. Therefore /@myRootAttribute is not the right thing
to say ;)

Regards,
Mukul

--- Stefan Schulz <schulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear reader,
> 
> I have searched the FAQ and archive, but did not
> find a solution for my 
> transformation problem.
> 
> For starters, I use the identity transformation to
> copy all elements and 
> attributes of an XML document. Additionally, I have
> a rule like:
> 
> <xsl:template match="/@myRootAttribute"/>
> 
> which seems to be ignored, as the mentioned
> attribute still occurs in 
> the target document. As I only want to omit the
> named attribute, if it 
> is an attribute of the root node, I could not apply
> the solution from 
> the FAQ for omitting attributes in general either.
> 
> My requirements are XSLT1.0 and a source document of
> arbitrary schema.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Stefan
> 
> 



		
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