Subject: [xsl] // expanding to descendant-or-self::node() From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:23:33 +0100 |
Why does // expand to descendant-or-self::node() rather than to descendant::x where x is the next item in the path? It seems like because of the implicit child:: axis, // had to expand to descendant-or-self, even though it doesn't make sense to include the self axis... In other words, the self axis is only included because of the implicit child axis - if that wasn't there, it wouldn't be needed. For example: /foo//bar/baz Why is the // is a step in its own right, rather than "//bar" being a single step - why can't the above expand to: /child::foo/descendant::bar/child::baz ? -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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