- From: TAN Kuan Hui <kuanhui@xemantics.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 16:20:52 +0800
- To: "Michael Kay" <mhk@mhk.me.uk>, "'Michael Rys'" <mrys@microsoft.com>, "'martin'" <martin@x-hive.com>
- Cc: "'Charles Brooking'" <charles.brooking@research.canon.com.au>, <www-ql@w3.org>
> > With a QName on the right, interpreting $a/xs:QName($b) to mean > $a/*[node-name()=xs:QName($b)] would make no sense at all in terms of "/" as > a mapping operator. Of course one could have overloaded the "/" operator > that way, but it would not have been a logical extension to the XPath 1.0 > meaning, and it would only create a shorter way of writing something that > can already be written with a predicate. > You are correct. I can now sleep in peace :)
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