- From: Emil Åström <Emil.Astrom@excosoft.se>
- Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 17:59:53 +0100
- To: "Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@east.sun.com>
- CC: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
"Eve L. Maler" wrote: > >2. Do child sequences in XPointer include comments and > >processing instructions? The spec. says that child sequences > >select among "child elements" which to me implies that > >comments and PIs are skipped. This seems to differ from > >the position() function in XPath. If this is true, then maybe > >it should be noted explicitly in the XPointer spec? > > It seems pretty explicit already, as you have noted. Child sequences are > basically equivalent to doing /*[n]/*[n]... . Maybe I misunderstand things here, but it seems to me that an XPointer "/1/1" and XPath "/*[1]/*[1]" will not return the same node in the following example (if the XPointer only counts elements) since MY_PI is not an element. <doc> <?MY_PI test?> <p> </doc> Cheers, Emil -- =========================================================== Emil Astrom, programmer at Excosoft AB emil.astrom@excosoft.se tel: +46 8 633 29 00 http://www.excosoft.se ===========================================================
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