Re: (2 xpath questions)

["John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:02 PM 09/25/2000 +0200, Taras Tielkes wrote:
> When I query the doc root node for "//", the parser will report that it is
> an "Incomplete XPath statement".
> The current MSXML beta has some bugs, but the only missing XPath feature
> listed is the namespace axis.

The XPath spec says of the // abbreviated syntax:

     // is short for /descendant-or-self::node()/

Perhaps that explains why a plain // doesn't work. It lacks a node test 
following the second slash. The slash is just a delimiter *between* 
portions of the location path, a sort of conjunction which says "and 
*then*..." -- it's not a, umm, location step in its own right.

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