RE: what is the meaning of literals in step expressions?

These are not valid path expressions (step expressions need to result in
nodes).

Best regards
Michael

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> From: www-ql-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ql-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of
> Howard Katz
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 15:08 PM
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> Subject: what is the meaning of literals in step expressions?
> 
> 
> I just realized that the existing grammar allows expressions such as
> "1/3",
> "//book/2", and "/bib//46.5/editor". Do patterns such as these (with
> literals in step expressions) have any valid semantic interpretation?
What
> should an XQuery implementation do on encountering such an expression?
> Thanks,
> Howard
>