After reading the XML Pointer Language Version 1.0, I have several questions: 1) In Section 5.3.4, two new tests for location selection are introduced: "point" and "range". Does anybody have an example of a situation in which these tests actually return a non-empty location set? The only one I can think of is self::point(), under the condition that the context location is a point. It seems to me that an axis can only preselect node-locations and point-locations (only in the case of a "self"-axis). How would it be possible to select ranges from these? 2) In Section 5.3.1, the axes of a point location are defined. What is the point of the last item: "A node-point's siblings...after the node-point", when before it is stated that the preceding-sibling and following-sibling axes are empty? Also, what is the definition of the "following" and "preceding" axes? Are they delegated to the XPath semantics? Also, is there a reason why items 3 and 4 explicitly refer to NODE-points instead of just points? --Mark Polman--Received on Friday, 23 February 2001 08:24:27 GMT
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