- From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 01:24:20 +0100
- To: "'Jonas Sicking'" <sicking@bigfoot.com>, www-xpath-comments@w3.org
> it would IMHO have been better to use a "*:*" or "element()" > pattern for a > NodeTest to match all elements. You're probably right; unfortunately it's much too late to change this. > > 2. It's impossible (in XSLT, and I would expect most other > XPath clients) to > create a NameTest that matches all named nodes in the null > namespace. Not > that *[namespace-uri() = ""] strictly speaking also selects > the nodes in the > "" namespace, which is different from the null namespace. No, I don't think XML namespaces allows a namespace URI of ""; that's why we are able to have namespace-uri() return "" to indicate the null namespace. > > > Unfortunately I don't see any way to solve this problem > without causing big > compability problems with XPath1.0 > Nor do I. Mike Kay
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