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Re: "self" axis for an attribute context node

• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
• To: "Oleg A. Paraschenko" <olpa@x...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:35:06 +0100

* Oleg A. Paraschenko wrote:
>I thought that the following XPath steps are equivanent:
>
>something[name()='lalala']
>something[self::lalala]

They are already different when it comes to namespace handling.

>      <xsl:copy-of select="@*[self::type]"/>

The 'principal node type' of the self-axis is 'element' no matter
where you refer to the axis, so self::type will look for an element
in no namespace with the local name 'type'. This is defined in

  http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-tests

Others might be able to explain the rationale behind this design
decision, if that's your question.
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