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Chris Maden wrote: >>You can start with a node-set and refine it, but you can't reference a >>node-set (the union of xpath2 and xpath3) as if it were the child of another >>node-set (xpath1). >> >>(/xpath1/xpath2|/xpath1/xpath3)/xpath4 should work for you. > > That's not legal. A UnionExpr (with the '|' operator) can't be part > of a Step like that; parentheses, in general, are not allowed in > Steps. Actually, it is legal. The () around the unioned paths indicate that the start of the location path is an expression. The relevant productions from the XPath Rec are: [19] PathExpr ::= LocationPath | FilterExpr | FilterExpr '/' RelativeLocationPath | FilterExpr '//' RelativeLocationPath [20] FilterExpr ::= PrimaryExpr | FilterExpr Predicate [15] PrimaryExpr ::= VariableReference | '(' Expr ')' | Literal | Number | FunctionCall Here we have a path expression that is a filter expression followed by a '/' followed by a relative location path. The filter expression is a primary expression consisting of '(', an expression, and ')'. The expression is itself a path expression that is a location path. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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