Re: XPath2 preceding / following axis and attributes

On 1/10/06, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In fact, it is easy to see that the following two XPath expressions
> are equivalent:
>
>      someElement/@someAttribute/following::someNodeTest
>
> and
>
>     someElement/following::someNodeTest
>
 if the element someElement has an attribute someAttribute.

To state this more precisely, the equivalence should be re-written as:

   In fact, it is easy to see that the following two XPath expressions
   are equivalent:

        someElement/@someAttribute/following::someNodeTest

   and

       someElement/@someAttribute/../following::someNodeTest


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Dimitre Novatchev
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