RE: essential test cases?

> XPath should give paths terminating at everything in the InfoSet.  Should
> not keep you from addressing the literal attribute value.

What it should do may be different from what it does do. XPath decided that
namespace declarations were considered something different from attributes
(and aren't visible as attributes, as far as I can tell), and that they
were absolutized. In other words, as XPath is currently written you _can't_
see the literal as-written value of the namespace declaration.

This may be suboptimial. But it's what was approved.

Which is precisely why we're having this debate; XPath and Namespaces don't
play nicely with each other as currently written.

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

Received on Wednesday, 14 June 2000 16:47:16 UTC