[Bug 7059] Forking XPath

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7059


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|NEEDSINFO                   |FIXED




--- Comment #36 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2009-09-22 07:17:39 ---
> > This doesn't appear to use XPath 1.0 terminology. Do you mean "when the node
> > test's principle node type is element"? If so, isn't this redundant with saying
> > that the condition only applies when "the node" is an element?
> 
> "when the node test's principle node type is element" is fine. You don't have
> "the node" until the path expression is applied to a document - and even then,
> it might not be applied to a given node. I don't think it's a good idea to
> define this in terms of the document to which it is applied, and that's
> certainly not how XPath does it.

We don't have a choice here as far as I can see — surely we don't want these
changes applying outside of HTML documents.

I'm marking this fixed since it appears the text is adequate now; please feel
free to reopen it if there is still a problem.


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