- From: TAN Kuan Hui <kuanhui@xemantics.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:58:54 +0800
- To: "Michael Kay" <mhk@mhk.me.uk>, "'Charles Brooking'" <charles.brooking@research.canon.com.au>, <www-ql@w3.org>
> > > > > > I have a problem with this interpretation. The lhs of "/" > > iterates each item > > to establish the focus for evaluation of each item in the rhs > > expression. Yes ? > > Now if each item is a QName, then this should be interpreted as a > > Name test. No ? > > No. > > The value of the expression "my:idea" is the string "my:idea", it is not the > value of the expression ./child::my:idea. Values are treated as values, not > as expressions to be evaluated. > This position changes the semantics of the path expression as a node selector.
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