Subject: RE: Matching Attributes with @ From: John Robert Gardner <jrgardn@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:42:06 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Kay Michael wrote: > Confusion upon confusion! > > > On Fri, 26 May 2000, Paulo Gaspar wrote: > > > > > > > Each element node can have 2 basic types of descendent nodes: > > > - Content; > > > - Attributes. > > Paulo wrote wrong. Attributes are not descendents of the element they belong > to, in the technical sense of the word. > > > > I remember a comment some time ago on this . . . that attributes are > > descendents . . . wouldn't they be children? -- of their containing > > element node, or context element node. So the element can > > have attribute > > children. ... So @ are children, but those children do not have parents? > > > > > Actually, you've come to exactly the opposite of the truth. An element is > the parent of its attributes, but the attributes are not children of the > element. Thanks Michael. I couldn't make it work with what was written, so I thought I should extend the logic and check with the list on it. Now that I read it, it makes perfect sense. As I was writing, I couldn't make it work in my head so thought I'd check. Saadhu! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-= John Robert Gardner, Ph.D. XML Engineer Emory University ------------------------------------------------------------ http://vedavid.org/diss/ "There is a difference between knowing The Path, and walking the Path." -Lawrence Fishburn/Morpheus > > And if that seems absurd, just substitute some non-biological words like > "controller" and "component" for "parent" and "child", and it doesn't seem > so bad. > > Mike K > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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