• From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@m...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:33:20 -0400

On 09/24/2011 12:06 PM, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> Why have descendant-or-self:: axis?  I'm guessing it is a necessary 
> facility in XPath 1 to implement the "//" abbreviation ... which
> expands as "/descendant-or-self::node()/".

That’s my recollection.

~Chris (W3C XSL WG, 1997–2001)
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• References:
  • missing XPath axis
    • From: "Johannes.Lichtenberger" <Johannes.Lichtenberger@u...>
  • Re: missing XPath axis
    • From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>