RE: Implementing " and ' in literals

[Matt Sergeant <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Kay Michael wrote:

> > There aren't _any_ conforming implementations of XPath - 
> > anyone who reads the grammar carefully will know what I mean by that.
> 
> Explain please?

It's the definition of Step (I'm only including the relevant parts of the 
grammar):

Step: AxisSpecifier NodeTest Predicate*

AxisSpecifier: AxisName '::' | AbbreviatedAxisSpecifier

AbbreviatedAxisSpecifier: '@'?

NodeTest: NameTest | NodeType '(' ')' | 
	'processing-instruction' '(' Literal ')'


Which allows for:

'@' NodeType '(' ')'

and

'@' 'processing-instruction' '(' Literal ')'

Which is total nonesense.

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