Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: needing clarification about XSL transformation

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Jirka Kosek wrote:

> Vitaly Ostanin wrote:
> 
> > node() is not a comment, not PI, not attribute - it just node
> > like
> > <node/>
> 
> With respect, you are wrong. Exact behaviour of node() is defined in
> XPath recommendation and you can read in section 2.3:
> 
> "A node test node() is true for any node of any type whatsoever."
> 
> any type = element node, PI node, comment node, ...

which agrees with tidwell, but disagrees with kay, and definitely
disagrees with http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt, which states, (Section 5.2)

  "node() matches any node other than an attribute node or the
   root node"

my brain hurts.

rday