RE: XT and SAXON treats //ccc and /descendant::ccc different

> By now I thought that //foo is an abbrev form of /descendant::foo

No, it's an abbreviation for /descendant-or-self::node()/foo

See XPath section 2.5, the paragraphs above production rule 10, which
explain why numeric predicates in this case behave the way they do.

Mike K


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