- From: T. V. Raman <tvraman@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:49:14 -0800
- To: "Michael N. Lipp" <mnl@mnl.de>
- Cc: www-forms@w3.org
the rule is first instance is always used unless you name the instance
via instance('x')
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael N Lipp <mnl@mnl.de> writes:
Michael> Hi,
Michael> can anybody please give me a hint where the specification
Michael> defines the behaviour of using the single node binding
Michael> attribute "ref" without using "instance('xyz')" in the
Michael> path expression if the model has multiple instance
Michael> children?
Michael> One obvious choice would be to use the first instance
Michael> element in the model. Another could be to try to match
Michael> the path against all instance(s) until a match is
Michael> found. This, I assume, would have been mentioned in 7.3
Michael> "Evaluation Context", so I doubt that this is
Michael> intended. But I couldn't find confirmation of the first
Michael> alternative neither...
Michael> Thanks
Michael> - Michael
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