Re: XPath grammar questions

  */node()
  by itself would also result in a set of nodes.


yes, the set of grandchildren of the current node.
But not(*/node()) works like not(@style) @style also selects a node set.

If a function requiring a boolean is passed a node set then the node set
is coerced to boolean (true if non empty. false if empty)


> where you effectively have "normalize" "-" "space(@name)='x'".  
foo-bar should never parse as foo - bar - is a name character so
you need to tokenise as foo-bar always if you want foo - bar the user
must insert white space.

You need to detect this is a functioncall by the presnce of the
following (

aaa
 is an abreviated node test child::aaa but
aaa()
is the function call aaa.

David

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