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Re: (2 xpath questions)
At 02:02 PM 09/25/2000 +0200, Taras Tielkes wrote:
>When I query the doc root node for "//", the parser will report that it is
>an "Incomplete XPath statement".
>The current MSXML beta has some bugs, but the only missing XPath feature
>listed is the namespace axis.
The XPath spec says of the // abbreviated syntax:
// is short for /descendant-or-self::node()/
Perhaps that explains why a plain // doesn't work. It lacks a node test
following the second slash. The slash is just a delimiter *between*
portions of the location path, a sort of conjunction which says "and
*then*..." -- it's not a, umm, location step in its own right.
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