Re: [xsl] Usage of Asterisk in XPath expressions

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22.03.2019 12:01, Philipp Nanz philipp.nanz@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Suppose this data:
>
> <foo:bar xmlns:foo="http://test/ns/foo"; a="b">Yadda</foo:bar>
>
> Then suppose this stylesheet:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>  B B B  xmlns:foo="http://test/ns/foo";
>  B B B  version="2.0">
>
>  B B B  <xsl:template match="foo:bar">
>  B B B B B B B  <xsl:if test="ancestor-or-self::foo*[@a]">

This is
  ancestor-or-self::foo * [@a]
that is ancestor-or-self::foo multiplied with the array [@a], i.e. the
array constructed with the attribute "a", I think.

Not sure what the multiplication with an array should result into, need
to scan the XPath 3.1 spec in some detail.