Re: [xsl] Re: Re: "*|@*|text()" vs. "node()"

[Jörg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx>]

Thanks Dimitre, is there a logical explanation of writing the spec in this 
way? Why attributes are no childs of its element?

Joerg


Dimitre Novatchev wrote:

> > Then look under patterns and you find the XSLT definition of the node()
> > test:
> >
> > 	node() matches any node other than an attribute node and the root node
> >
> > which is slightly confusing since the XPath spec defines it as:
> >
> > 	A node test node() is true for any node of any type whatsoever.
>
> The confusion is because they omitted a necessary clarification:
>
> "A node test node() is true for any node of any type whatsoever for the ***given
> axis***"
>
> so:
>
> ancestor::node() will return the root node as one of the nodes in the resulting
> node-set.
>
> attribute::node() will return all attribute nodes of the current (element) node.
>
> namespace::node() will return all the namespace nodes of the current (element) node.
>
> node() will return all element, PI, comment, text children of the current node.
>
> Therefore, we have tests for all types of nodes.
>
> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev.


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