- From: Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:07:53 +0100
- To: "Richard Tobin" <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-xml-processing-model-wg <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
Richard,
I think this "replace" is a little bit too powerful
what will be the behaviour of
replace("//foo", "@bar") in a document where "bar" is a required
attribute of "foo" ?
or
replace("//foo", "..") ?
or even
replace("//foo", "following::foo") ? and the orther one with preceding axis ?
Mohamed
On 1/12/07, Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Delete and unwrap could be subsumed by a more general "replace"
> component, which uses an XPath to specify the replacement. The XPath
> would be evaluated relative to the selected node. So replacing //foo
> by nothing deletes foo elements; replacing //foo by node() unwraps the
> children of foo elements.
>
> (There isn't a trivial XPath expression for "nothing", though many
> can be constructed. But an empty XPath would be an obvious choice.)
>
> -- Richard
>
>
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