Subject: RE: [xsl] Selecting the first node set From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:00:09 +0100 |
> One has to be willing to think with the > literal-mindedness of a machine to tell the difference > between /descendant-or-self::node()/child::Value[1] and > (/descendant-or-self::node()/child::Value)[1], and that can > take a bit of practice. Yes. I'm not sure why people struggle with this though. It seems intuitive enough that x | y[1] doesn't mean the same as (x | y)[1] so why is the "/" perceived so differently from the "|"? Is it that people are somehow aware that it's a higher-order operator and therefore imagine it doesn't obey normal precedence rules? Or is it the overloading of [], which in its other role as a boolean filter is associative with "/"? Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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