Subject: Re: [xsl] // expanding to descendant-or-self::node() From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:57:29 +0100 |
> I think that's a better situation than we have now... actually so do I, (hence my first answer, which didn't try to give a rational explanation) but I suspect that the reasoning was more along the lines of the second answer. // was a primitive or at least its expansion wasn't formally defined) in December 1998 A // can be used instead of / to select from descendants instead of from children. by April 1999 it had become // is short for /from-descendants-or-self(node())/ which is essentially (modulo syntax changes) the definition it ended up with. I couldn't immediately spot anything in the working group mail archive between those dates that showed when the change happened (not that I could tell you if I had found it:-) David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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