RE: Error 80004005 eof - Microsoft XML Parser (September Dro

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Subject: RE: Error 80004005 eof - Microsoft XML Parser (September Drop)
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:30:27 +0100

Andy,

At 04:47 PM 10/19/00 -0700, you wrote:

The loophole exists in the XPath BNF:

[4] Step ::= AxisSpecifier NodeTest Predicate* | AbbreviatedStep

[12] AbbreviatedStep ::= '.' | '..'
The AbbreviatedStep may not have a predicate after it, unlike a regular
NodeTest Step.  I can't think of a reason why this shouldn't be allowed, so
I assume it was an oversight by the W3C committee.  Maybe it will be fixed
in Errata or in a future version of XPath.

Thanks for this. It could turn up as a gotcha anytime. "No predicates after abbreviated steps . or .."

So Ben, .[ancestor::sublist[1]] should be rejected by a conforming processor.

Regards,
Wendell

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RE: Error 80004005 eof - Microsoft XML Parser (September Drop), (continued)
- Andrew Kimball - Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:44:31 -0700
  - Wendell Piez - Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:27:16 +0100
- Ben Skelton - Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:34:50 -0700
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