Re: Are nodes atomic values?

Ok, thanks. Quoting a popular characater, "oh well, back to the old
drawing board"...

On 9/9/05, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > By atomic i meant it's greek meaning of "indivisible".
>
> yes I suspected that (in which case the answer is yes)  but I wasn't
> sure if you were refering to the defined term "atomic value" in XPath2
> (in which case the answer is no, atomic values as defined by xpath2
> consist of integers, strings, dates etc, but explictly not nodes)
>
> > so it can't select something that doesn't
> > exist, so what i want is not possible.
>
> correct.
>
> David
>
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