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Re: Xpath Question

• To: Michael Rys <mrys@m...>
• Subject: Re: Xpath Question
• From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@r...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:38:34 -0400
• Cc: Joe English <jenglish@f...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <EB0A327048144442AFB15FCE18DC96C7272CCD@R...>; from mrys@m... on Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:33:56AM -0700
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:33:56AM -0700, Michael Rys wrote:
> It is either 2 or 5 depending on whether your parser preserved the text
> nodes containing boundary whitespace.

  Considering the XML file given nothing allows the XML processor
to not preserve them, moreover the XPath data model requires to see
those text node.
  On the other hand the question is weak because XPath has no conformance
clause, so the question would have to e asked on the context of a 
processing (XSLT/ XPointer/ DOM 3/ ...) environment which define
conformance.
  Still from an XSLT viewpoint the answer is unambiguously 5.

Daniel

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