- From: Weichel Bernhard (K3/EMW4) * <Bernhard.Weichel@de.bosch.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:46:53 +0200
- To: "'www-xpath-comments@w3.org'" <www-xpath-comments@w3.org>
I think it would be better to define the step as it is done in MetaMorphosis (www.ovidius.com): basis predicate rank where basis is simply the axis (such as child, parent, descendant, left, right, preceeding etc.) with no NodeTest. The NodeTest should be part of the predicate using a special operator such as (taken from MetaMorphosis language) child[?para] The ? operator can be applied to multiple properties such as types, attributes contents. If no property is specified, then the element name is taken: child[data?introduction] all children containing the text "introduction) child[@id?foo] all children with Attribute id equals foo child[gid?para] all children with Generic Identifier "para" predicate should be a location path which is treated as true as long as the adressed ressource exists. rank is separated by ":" and allows to specify a subset of the result: child[?para]:2~-2 returns the child paragraph except the first and the last one This solves the issues (node-ordering) and (bracket-overload). Regards/Mit freundlichen Gruessen =================================================================== Bernhard Weichel Phone: (49) 711 811 8322 Robert Bosch GmbH Fax: (49) 711 811 260073 Dept. K3/EMW4 eMail: bernhard.weichel@de.bosch.com P.O. Box 30 02 40 D-70442 Stuttgart Germany
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