Re: [xsl] Getting attribute from rootnode...?

["Ragulf Pickaxe" <jawxml at hotmail dot com>]

Thanks! (Didn't mean to keep you out from the last thank you mail).

Does what your mail say, imply that /*/@RootAttributeValue actually searches 
through every 3 child nodes (in your example) looking for the attribute? Not 
that this still won't be _way_ more effecient than the other solution, I 
just want to understand the process...

Sincerly
Ragulf :)



>From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>Subject: Re: [xsl] Getting attribute from rootnode...?
>Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:50:25 GMT
>
> > Is this the best sollution? It seems that this will check every node for 
>the
> > attribute, while I know that it is in the rootnode.
>
>No, you know it is on the document element. Th eroot node (/) is not an
>element node it is above that and essentially represents the whole
>document. The element node children of the root node are /* (there will
>only be one in a well formed document) and you want the attribute of
>that which is
>
>/*/@RootAttributeValue
>
>/@RootAttributeValue
>would get the attribute of the root node but root nodes don't have
>attributes, only children. (note they may have more than one child
>
><?xml-stylesheet .... ?>
><!-- an example -->
><x>
>
>...
></x>
>
>has three child nodes of the root node, a processing instruction, a
>comment and an element node.
>
>David
>
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