Re: XQuey

> My email from yesterday was incorrect.  It turns out
> that, indeed, the children following an attribute
> are included in the following:: axis applied to that
> attribute.  The root of the problem is that the XPath 2.0
> data model does not specify the following constraint
> (which is specified in the XPath 1.0 data model):
>
>   "The attribute nodes and namespace nodes of an element
>    occur before the children of the element."

Doesn't the following in 2.4 imply this constraint?

> Within a tree, document order satisfies the following
> constraints:
> * [...]
> * Namespace nodes immediately follow the element node with
>   which they are associated. The relative order of
>   namespace nodes is stable but implementation-dependent.
> * Attribute nodes immediately follow the namespace nodes
>   of the element with which they are associated. The
>   relative order of attribute nodes is stable but
>   implementation-dependent.
> * [...]

-- Jan Hidders