Re: position() after match in component

/ Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> was heard to say:
|> However, we want to be able to stream many of our microsteps. On that
|> basis, I'd be in favor of saying that the context position and context
|> size are both 1 when the replace expression is evaluated in
|> p:string-replace (and in analagous situations on other steps).
|
| Unless the replace expression is prohibited from accesssing arbitrary
| nodes, I don't see much advantage to this.  You have to analyse the
| expression to see if it needs the rest of the document, so you might
| as well check for calls to position() and size() too.
|
|> Both require an unbounded amount of look ahead.
|
| As does replace="following-sibling::b"

Hmm. True. But I think I still prefer position()=last()=1.

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                                          norm

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