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missing XPath axis

• From: "Johannes.Lichtenberger" <Johannes.Lichtenberger@uni-konstanz.de>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:58:05 +0200

Hello,

I just wandered what was the reason for the authors of the XPath
recommendations to not include the XPath axis 'child-or-self::' as a
counterpart to 'descendant-or-self::' in XPath 1.0, 2.0 or at all?

Although I'm not sure if this is the appropriate mailinglist to ask --
just in case, please point me to the right mailinglist.

I know it's doable via 'expression/(self::node()|node())' but I think
that's more or less a work around to the lack of the 'child-or-self::' axis.

kind regards,
Johannes

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