Re: AbsoluteLocationPath

James Swift wrote:


> looking at the production 
> 
> AbsoluteLocationPath    ::=    '/' RelativeLocationPath?  |
> AbbreviatedAbsoluteLocationPath 
> 
> one would assume that a / on it's own is a valid XPath expression,
> however I can't see what this could mean.


Why not?

RelativeLocationPath is optional, so / is a truly valid XPath expression.


See http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath.html#location-paths
"An absolute location path consists of / optionally followed by a 
relative location path. A / by itself selects the root node of the 
document containing the context node."

PS. It's like "cd /" in a shell :)

-- 
Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International, Israel

Received on Wednesday, 26 December 2001 13:12:30 UTC