Re: XPath2 preceding / following axis and attributes

On 1/10/06, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think the results here are correct. The text node "205" is a descendant
of
> the element containing the attribute, but it's not a descendant of the
> attribute, so it is included in the result.
>
> Or have I misunderstood?


You're right -- and this particular case is indeed quite tricky --
thanks to Soren Kuula for raising the question.

So, as a next attempt, are the following two XPath expressions equivalent:


       someElement/@someAttribute/following::someNodeTest


  and



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



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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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