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This does point out the strange fact that attributes are not children of their parents - I think? Is it true that an attribute node's parent is the element it's attached to? I'd assume so, but didn't check the spec... -Mike On 02/28/2012 01:44 PM, Andrew Welch wrote: > On 28 February 2012 18:15, David Lee<dlee@calldei.com> wrote: > >> Could you reference where in the specs that the child axis doesn't contain attributes ? >> The best I can find is : >> >> * the child axis contains the children of the context node >> >> >> And then: >> * the attribute axis contains the attributes of the context node; the axis will be empty unless the context node is an element >> >> >> But nothing I can spot that says attributes are not children. >> I 'know' the answer but I can't find where in the specs its explicit. >> > I know what you mean, it's intuitive to think attributes are > children... but what you are asking there you could also say about > parent nodes - where is it explicit saying that parent nodes are not > children. > > The other thing I used to get caught out by with attributes is that > the attribute value isn't a separate node from the attribute name, > both are in the same single node. > > >
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