Chapter 18
Ten Most Confusing Things About XSLT
In This Chapter
Built-in templates do things behind the scenes
Think of XML documents as trees
What a root node is and isn’t
Why the selected node isn’t the same as current node
XPath abbreviations
Location steps and paths
Using xsl:apply-templates, xsl:copy, xsl:copy-of, and xsl:value-of
How the axis dictates the order of the selected node set
Types of XPath expressions
When to use curly brackets
Whitespace in your result documents
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