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Re: Re: Re: XSLT Tree Model
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Re: Re: XSLT Tree Model
- From: Francis Norton <francis at redrice dot com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 15:10:07 +0100
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Hi Dimitre,
Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
>
> 2. A more direct answer (page 406):
> "Although the formal usually give the answer you would expect intuitively,
> there can be surprises. For example, you might expect the pattern "node()"
> to match any node; but it doesn't. As an expression it short for
> "./child::node", and the only nodes that this can select are nodes that are
> children of something. Since root nodes, attribute nodes and namespace nodes
> are never children of another node, they will never be matched by the
> pattern "node()""
>
> I can only add, that due to the fact that only the "child" and "attribute" axis are
> allowed in a pattern (excluding contents of predicates where any XPath expression is
> OK), this effectively means, that namespace nodes cannot be matched by a pattern.
>
which very nicely explains my puzzle on the 'Re: [xsl] "*|@*|text()" vs.
"node()"' thread - thanks!
Francis.
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