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RE: attribute nodes
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] attribute nodes
- From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism at maden dot org>
- Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 13:12:20 -0700
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At 12:03 5-05-2001, Michael Fitzgerald wrote:
>I'm not trying to solve any big problems here -- it just seems odd that a
>node is not a child node because of its label.
That's what I thought. I certainly have no quarrel with curiosity.
>I also think it is
>interesting that because an attribute is always a leaf, it can be neither a
>parent or a child. Are there other examples of such "bobbles" on trees or
>is it common in data models to have semi-nodes? I trow not.
Not common, I don't think, but attributes aren't unique in this sense in
the XPath data model; namespace nodes have the same quirk. Element, PI,
comment, and text nodes all are children of their parents, and the root
node has no parent.
>Nonetheless,
>this is not dangerous nor does it ever seem difficult to process attribute
>nodes. It is merely amusing.
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-Chris
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