Re: Is this an XPath Grammar Limitation ?

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Subject: Re: Is this an XPath Grammar Limitation ?
From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 04:18:04 -0500

Michael Kay wrote:

Here are some expressions that the 1.0 syntax allows
but the data typing rules prohibit:

1/fred

fred/1

count(3)

4 | 5

Turns out Jaxen was flaking out on half of those (returning empty lists instead of throwing an exception). I've now fixed them. Are there any other kinds of BNF-correct but datatype-forbidden expressions in XPath 1.0 I should be watching out for?

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