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Eric van der Vlist wrote: > > I find it amazing that this syntax that is a straight reformulation of > XPath shows similarities between TREX (rules expressed in a XML syntax) > and Schematron (rules expressed in XPath syntax) that were hidden before > by the different syntax... > I submit that this is a basic nature of modelling a hierarchical structure as XML. XPath is defined as a set of EBNF productions, hence can be modelled as an XSet expansion (similarly to the way an XML document can be 'expanded' as a serialized PSVI). The XML structure you see is derived from the underlying EBNF. -Jonathan
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