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Re: WHAT IS THE "::" SYNTAX USED FOR ??

Subject: Re: WHAT IS THE "::" SYNTAX USED FOR ??
From: "John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:11:48 -0500
what is the syntax
At 11:45 AM 01/19/2000 -0500, Jonathan Asbell wrote:
I have found nothing in the XSL spec which speaks of using :: in syntax.
Could someone please explain what it is for and how to use it syntactically.
Is it optional?

Look at the descriptions of various axes (e.g. descendant, descendant-or-self, etc.); those descriptions will probably be not in the XSL spec, but in the XPath Recommendation at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
The double-colon "::" is used to separate the axis designation from the node test portion of the XPath expression.


Does that help?
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