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Re: Quick Xpath

• To: vdv@d...
• Subject: Re: Quick Xpath
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:27:49 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <1026946189.19732.520.camel@ibook> (message from Eric van derVlist on 18 Jul 2002 00:49:48 +0200)
• References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1020717183831.21107B-100000@e...> <1026946189.19732.520.camel@ibook>

> "preceding-sibling::*" to a variable "var", then I can ask for $var[1]
> which would have no meaning if this was a -set- a

true but [] does not work on a node set, it works on the current node
list (which being a list is ordered). In the above construct teh current
node list is first constructed by taking teh set in $var and listing the
nodes in document order.

In Xpath 1 the current node list is not a first class object, it can not
be returned as the value of an expression.

David

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    • From: bob mcwhirter <bob@w...>
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