[Bug 5297] Drop restriction of assertions to down-pointing XPaths?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5297





------- Comment #6 from noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com  2007-12-13 00:18 -------
> In some of those formulations, specific XPath axes
> have been made illegal in the XPath expressions.
> In others, the input tree has been truncated so
> that any expression which attempts to refer to
> nodes outside the subtree will evaluate to the
> empty set.  Other formulations are possible which
> involve neither syntactic restrictions on XPath
> expressions nor tree surgery.  The details of the
> spec prose are not of interest here; what is at
> issue is the goal the WG has been trying to
> achieve, which the description of the issue argues
> should be revisited.  If the goal is dropped, then
> I think the implications for the spec prose are
> obvious enough.

OK.  That's what I wanted to be sure I understood.  Thank you.

Noah