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Re: Quick question regarding XPath

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• Subject: Re: Quick question regarding XPath
• From: Murali Mani <mani@C...>
• Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 06:04:26 -0800 (PST)
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You are misinterpreting my question:

Is it possible to say doc ("test.xml")/a//@b

is the above equivalent to:

doc ("test.xml")/(a/@b | a//*/@b)

thanks, murali.

// is the descendant axis - not the root of the document.

the question tries to see whether attributes and elements are treated
similarly by the // axis

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Murali Mani wrote:

>
> is it possible to say in XPath
>
> a//@b
>
> is the above equivalent to:
>
> (a/@b | a//*/@b)
>
> thanks, murali.
>
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