> My email from yesterday was incorrect. It turns out > that, indeed, the children following an attribute > are included in the following:: axis applied to that > attribute. The root of the problem is that the XPath 2.0 > data model does not specify the following constraint > (which is specified in the XPath 1.0 data model): > > "The attribute nodes and namespace nodes of an element > occur before the children of the element." Doesn't the following in 2.4 imply this constraint? > Within a tree, document order satisfies the following > constraints: > * [...] > * Namespace nodes immediately follow the element node with > which they are associated. The relative order of > namespace nodes is stable but implementation-dependent. > * Attribute nodes immediately follow the namespace nodes > of the element with which they are associated. The > relative order of attribute nodes is stable but > implementation-dependent. > * [...] -- Jan HiddersReceived on Wednesday, 10 March 2004 21:24:30 GMT
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