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RE: how to use // starting from the root, when i am few steps und er the root,


->-----Original Message-----
->From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com]
->Subject: RE: how to use // starting from the root, when i am few steps
->und er the root, 

Hi,

->At 07:06 PM 8/22/00 +0200, Frank wrote:
...
->It's not more logical to write "///" if you know that "//" is an
->abbreviation of "/descendent-or-self::node()/" (XPath 2.5). 
->It is *not*
->"the short version for descendant-or-self": it's more precise 
->than that.

ok, I read that part of the XPath Spec again, you are 100% right (I never
really realized that there was a '/' before 'descendant'...

...
->To suggest that it's "more logical" to do it a way that makes no sense
->according to the spec because the "average user" would be 
->confused by what
->the spec says, and what the heck, is basically to say that 
->it's okay to be
->confused, as long as we can make something up, and in fact we should
->encourage it, and what the spec says simply doesn't matter. 
->Do any of us really want to go that way?

ok, I got it wrong, please forgive me, I just flew over the XPath Spec and
that's what first came to my mind when I needed it and it worked, so I never
really thought about it.

->Please don't defend Xalan's bug. My $0.02 (okay $0.03).
->
->Cheers,
->Wendell

bye
Frank
-
Frank Spychalski
Research Engineer
SAP Labs, Palo Alto           frank.spychalski@sap.com 


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