Re: XPath2 F&O fn:id() broken wrt XPointer

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John Cowan writes:

> Let me make sure I understand this.  XQuery believes that an attribute of
> type ID identifies its owner element (and so say we all), but an *element*
> of type ID identifies *itself* rather than its parent element.

Yes.

> If that is what you mean, I agree that it is bogus and should be changed.

Indeed.

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