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Thanks - feeling mildly illiterate now. I've been using xpath happily for years: not sure why I felt the need to complain today :) -Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 10:14 AM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: returning nodes which have a specific child > > > > > But I still have to say it seems strange that "@*" > (apparently) can > > match attributes on the child axis and node() can't ... > > There are never any attributes on the child axis. > > It's simpler to see the distinction if you first expand the > abbreviated syntax. > > node() > > doesn't have an explict axis specifier so it is an abbreviation for > > child::node() > > so the reason it doesn't match attributes is nothing to do > with the node test "node()" it is simply that the test is > applied to the child axis, and there are no attributes on the > child axis. The same is true of namespace nodes, incidentally. > > > > @* is an abbrevation for > > attribute::* > > > > You can see that the node test node() is true for attribute > nodes if you apply it to an axis that has such nodes, as in: > > attribute:node() > > node() matches attributes in other contexts too, such as the > xpath2 expression > > @foo instance of node() > > which is true if there is a foo attribute. > > David > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > __________ > The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in > England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered > office is: > Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. > > This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The > service is powered by MessageLabs. > ______________________________________________________________ > __________
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