Re: positional predicates in XPath vs XQL

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Subject: Re: positional predicates in XPath vs XQL
From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 07:56:44 +0100

Christopher R. Maden wrote:

node, <2>. Is my understanding correct?

No. Whence did you acquire it?

Fallacious raciotination obviously.

I'll bite. What is the correct result in the XPath case??

Nodes 2, 5, and 7.

I guess that the confusion comes out of the fact that even though /section/para[ 1 ] is a node set containing nodes 2, 5 and 7, its string "value" is the string value of the first node in this list, i.e. the string value of node 2.

Thus, if you display this node set using the XPath string() function or the xsl:value-of XSLT element, you will get the string value of node 2 even though the node set is indeed the list (node 2, node 4, node 5).

Eric
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positional predicates in XPath vs XQL
- Howard Katz - Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:39:33 -0500 (EST)
  - Christopher R. Maden - Fri, 23 Nov 2001 22:49:41 -0500 (EST)
    - Howard Katz - Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:14:20 -0500 (EST)
      - Christopher R. Maden - Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:34:35 -0500 (EST)
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