- From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 22:14:26 +0100
- To: "'Michael Dyck'" <MichaelDyck@shaw.ca>, www-xml-query-comments@w3.org, www-xpath-comments@w3.org
> > Is there any reason why the syntax disallows (e.g.) > ..[whatever] > but allows > (..)[whatever] > and > parent::node()[whatever] > ? > > That is, why is DotDot an entire step (with no opportunity for > StepQualifiers), rather than an alternative to 'Axis NodeTest'? > > Ditto all the above for Dot. > At one stage our syntax did allow .[predicate] and ..[predicate] but for some reason it was reorganised to disallow these constructs, I think as an accidental side-effect. My view is therefore that this is a bug, but I would need to check with the parsing experts... Mike Kay
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