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> Richard Tobin [mailto:richard@c...] wrote > it appears that > > foo//bar[5] > > means different things depending on where it appears. > > As a location path (see section 6.1), it selects a bar element that is > a descendent of a foo child of the current node, and that is the fifth > such element in document order. > > As a pattern (see section 6.3), it matches a bar element that is a > descendent of a foo element, and that is the fifth foo child of its > parent. > Actually, as a pattern it seems to mean different things depending which explanation you read. Arguably the sentence below production [52] "A pattern is defined to match a node..." is definitive, in which case by definition the pattern means the same thing in both contexts. If this is true, however, the "it is easy to understand" explanation that follows appears to be incorrect. Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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