Re: On the interpretation of match=

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Florent Georges <fgeorges@fgeorges.org> wrote:
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> 2008/10/5 Norman Walsh wrote:
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>> I think the shortest argument why is that the BNF for an XSLT 2.0
>> Pattern[2] (which we call an XSLTMatchPattern and still need to cite a
>> little more carefully) cannot be empty.
>
>  I would second that for the same reason.

+1

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>  But I have a little question about your example:
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>>  <p:rename match="//item" new-name="foo"/>
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>  Do we agree this is equivalent to the following? (note the descendent axis) :
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>    <p:rename match="item" new-name="foo"/>

Sure : this is an XSLT Match Pattern !

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>> The matched node is a comment and rename cannot
>> target comments.
>
>  About this example (matching a comment node), would it be an error
> if the match expression matched both comment and element nodes?

No I would be an error ONLY because it is matching a comment

If it was matching both an element and an PI then it would be ok

Xmlizer

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