On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:58:59 +0100, Martin Honnen <mahotrash@y...> wrote:

>Chuck Jungmann wrote:
>
>> 	<xsl:template match="node()" mode="nameNode">
>
>Note that node() does _not_ match the root node so you need
>   <xsl:template match="/ | node()" mode="nameNode">
>here.
>
>> 	<xsl:template match="node()" mode="makePath">
>
>Same here
>   <xsl:template match="/ | node()" mode="makePath">
>
>Otherwise the default template would kick in which processes the child 
>nodes of the root node and that way you don't get the results you are 
>looking for and even recursion in the latter case.

Thank you for the response.

Actually, I had been trying to use XSL to identify the returned nodes, but then
I realized that, for the purposes of understanding what was happening, I could
use the DOM in Javascript and examine the results in a debugger.  I was just
going to respond to myself to say what I had learned (ie that
"ancestor-or-self::node() returned the document node and that using
"ancestor-or-self::*" didn't) when I read your response.