Re: Numbering of nodes other than elements from James Clark on 1999-07-01 (xsl-editors@w3.org from July to September 1999)

From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:39:30 +0700
To: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>
CC: "'xsl-editors@w3.org'" <xsl-editors@w3.org>
Message-ID: <377B6182.F787B5FC@jclark.com>

Thanks.  I've fixed this.

Kay Michael wrote:
> 
> The description of the "count" attribute throughout section 9.7 is worded as
> if only element nodes can be matched and counted.
> 
> In most cases substituting "node" for "element" makes sense; the only
> difficulty is, what should the default for the count attribute be if the
> current node is not an element?
> 
> There ought to be some statement made about numbering of attributes: in my
> view it is meaningless and should not be allowed.
> 
> Mike Kay

Received on Thursday, 1 July 1999 08:46:58 UTC