Subject: Re: Finding the root element From: ht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Henry S. Thompson) Date: 29 Oct 1998 17:11:14 +0000 |
"G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > At 98/10/29 15:32 +0000, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > >Actually, undocumented feature of Jade is that (current-node) does in fact > >return the root inside a root rule. > > Is that Jade-specific or DSSSL standard? I assumed the description > relating to "SDQL context" meant that "in the context of root, > (current-node) returns the root node" ... but now that I look deeper into > the spec, I can't find justification for that. > Indeed a thorough search of the electronic original reveals that there are several gaps in the spec. wrt what the values are of (current-node) and (current-root) in various contexts, most notably for our purposes when the context is (root ...). It certainly seems reasonable that (current-node) should be DEFINED to be equivalent to (current-root) in the root-construction-rule context. A quick scan of the draft corrigenda doesn't reveal any attempt fill these gaps either -- James? ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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