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Re: missing XPath axis

• From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:29:28 +0100

On 24/09/2011 15:58, Johannes.Lichtenberger wrote:
> 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?
>
>
I've no idea what the history of this is. The one I often miss is 
following-sibling-or-self. But with the ".|X" notation allowed anywhere 
in XPath 2.0, it's not really a big loss.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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    • From: "Johannes.Lichtenberger" <Johannes.Lichtenberger@uni-konstanz.de>