Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >comp.text.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: XPath Help >Thread Next - Re: XPath Help Re: XPath HelpTo: NULL Date: 8/1/2006 8:45:00 AM Thanks Johannes. That makes sense now. Johannes Koch wrote: > rnurse@g... wrote: > > I'm new to XML and I'm working with an XSL style sheet. In this file > > I've noticed the following XPath reference: > > > > <xsl:for-each select="//SomeNodeName"> > > > > Could someone explain the "//" in the XPath reference? > > See the example in the XPath 1.0 specification > (<http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#path-abbrev>): > > //para selects all the para descendants of the document root and thus > selects all para elements in the same document as the context node > > -- > Johannes Koch > Spem in alium nunquam habui praeter in te, Deus Israel. > (Thomas Tallis, 40-part motet) | ||||||
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