Subject: RE: how to use // starting from the root, when i am few steps und er the root, From: "Spychalski, Frank" <frank.spychalski@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:30:44 +0200 |
->-----Original Message----- ->From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] ->Subject: RE: how to use // starting from the root, when i am few steps ->und er the root, Hi, ->At 07:06 PM 8/22/00 +0200, Frank wrote: ... ->It's not more logical to write "///" if you know that "//" is an ->abbreviation of "/descendent-or-self::node()/" (XPath 2.5). ->It is *not* ->"the short version for descendant-or-self": it's more precise ->than that. ok, I read that part of the XPath Spec again, you are 100% right (I never really realized that there was a '/' before 'descendant'... ... ->To suggest that it's "more logical" to do it a way that makes no sense ->according to the spec because the "average user" would be ->confused by what ->the spec says, and what the heck, is basically to say that ->it's okay to be ->confused, as long as we can make something up, and in fact we should ->encourage it, and what the spec says simply doesn't matter. ->Do any of us really want to go that way? ok, I got it wrong, please forgive me, I just flew over the XPath Spec and that's what first came to my mind when I needed it and it worked, so I never really thought about it. ->Please don't defend Xalan's bug. My $0.02 (okay $0.03). -> ->Cheers, ->Wendell bye Frank - Frank Spychalski Research Engineer SAP Labs, Palo Alto frank.spychalski@xxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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