[Bug 12951] Remove restrictions on "/" (was "Simple mapping operator")

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12951

--- Comment #4 from Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> 2011-06-15 23:01:01 UTC ---
One of the reasons we don't allow atomic values on the LHS of "/" is that
people felt it was not acceptable that let $x := 10 return $x/2 should be legal
and return 2. Though you get the same problem with @price/2 which is legal
today and returns 2...

The other problem with overloading "/" is that there's also a need for simple
mapping (without deduplication and sorting) with nodes on the RHS, for example
//@href/doc(.)

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Received on Wednesday, 15 June 2011 23:01:05 UTC