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sure but it also makes sense to say child::sub I don't think most doc-heads would accept as valid the idea that a mixed content element (especially if the element has the mixed content in it) is of type string. Cheers, Bryan Rasmussen On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > <person><first>Michael</first><last>Kay</last></person> > > > > > > > Out of interest, what is the reasoning behind allowing a > > mixed content element's typed-value to be its string value, > > but making it an error for element-only content? > > > > data-heads vs doc-heads. > > The data people felt that saying person='Kay' should be caught as a type > error. > > But with mixed content, for example > > <title>Water, or H<sub>2</sub>O</title> > > it clearly makes sense to say contains(title, 'Water') > > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/
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