RE: XPath 2.0 - 2.1.2 - self::node() and .

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> From: Svgdeveloper@aol.com [mailto:Svgdeveloper@aol.com] 
> Sent: 23 October 2002 20:46
> To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Subject: XPath 2.0 - 2.1.2 - self::node() and .
> 
> In 2.1.2 of XPath 2.0 the context item is defined. Michael 
> Kay's response to 
> a query I had about XSLT 2.0 indicates a change in meaning of 
> self::node() 
> and . in XPath 2.0.
> 
> It seems to me that that change is not mentioned in XPath 2.0 
> but ought to 
> be. Chapter 2.1.2 seems an appropriate place to express the change.
> 
> An equivalent change would need to be made in XQuery 1.0 spec too.
> 
> Andrew Watt
>

We do not currently have any place in the XPath 2.0 document that summarizes
changes since XPath 1.0, except in cases where the specification is not
backwards-compatible. Clearly, such a summary would be useful to some
people, but it would be non-normative, and it is perhaps best produced not
as part of the specification, but in the form of articles like the one
written by Evan Lenz [1]

Michael Kay

[1] http://www.xml.com/pub/au/135

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