RE: AW: AW: use preceding element or self

> Oh in addition to my earlier comments, I think  the meaning of a
> predicate
> [ boolean valued-expression]
> has changed a bit in the various drafts of XPath2, i can't 
> remember what
> saxon 8.2 did.

the only change is that some expressions that were previously accepted are
now rejected as errors. For example

$x[1 to 5]

was equivalent to

$x[true()]

in previous drafts, but is now an error.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/