RE: [xsl] attribute nodes

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:03 5-05-2001, Michael Fitzgerald wrote:
> I'm not trying to solve any big problems here -- it just seems odd that a
> node is not a child node because of its label.

That's what I thought.  I certainly have no quarrel with curiosity.

> I also think it is
> interesting that because an attribute is always a leaf, it can be neither a
> parent or a child.  Are there other examples of such "bobbles" on trees or
> is it common in data models to have semi-nodes? I trow not.

Not common, I don't think, but attributes aren't unique in this sense in 
the XPath data model; namespace nodes have the same quirk.  Element, PI, 
comment, and text nodes all are children of their parents, and the root 
node has no parent.

> Nonetheless,
> this is not dangerous nor does it ever seem difficult to process attribute
> nodes. It is merely amusing.

(-:

-Chris
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