- From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:57:38 +0100
- To: "'AndrewWatt2000@aol.com'" <AndrewWatt2000@aol.com>, www-xpath-comments@w3.org
> Can someone explain to me the rationale of replacing the term > "Location Step" > (XPath 1.0 Chapter 2.1) with the term "Axis Step" (XPath 2.0 > WD Chapter > 2.3.1) please? > In XPath 1.0, all steps in a path expression used axes to navigate from one node to other nodes. In XPath 2.0, steps have been generalised so they can use any expression. So in an XPath 1.0 location path, only one kind of step was allowed, and it was reasonable to call it a location step. In XPath 2.0, two kinds of step are allowed, an axis step or a general step. Mike Kay
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