- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:52:45 +0100
- To: "'Murali Mani'" <mani@CS.UCLA.EDU>
- Cc: <www-ql@w3.org>
> > However, I am not sure why we should always try to translate // to > something like descendant-or-self::node()/child; why not > define semantics > for p//text () as -- all nodes in the document in document > order with 2 > predicates -- check if they are descendants of p, check if > they are text > nodes.. then we will not switch off the computer !!?? Here are two useful constructs that would not work (or would not produce the XPath 1.0 results) with this definition: p//@code p//item[1] There are other constructs that are less useful, but still allowed by XPath 1.0, such as p//.. Michael Kay
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