The self Axis

The self axis refers to the context node. It's sometimes useful when making relative links. For example, /self::node() selects the root node of the document (which is not the same as the root element of the document; that would be selected by /child::* or, in this example, /child::FAMILYTREE.) It can abbreviated by a single period. However, this axis is rarely used in XPointers. It's more useful for XSLT select expressions.


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