RE: XQuey

Sorry, I keep trying to understand why XPath works the way it does. I
should have learned my
lesson by now...
I agree that Mary's new normalization is correct.
- Jerome




                                                                           
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The XPath 1.0 specification said that attributes were not included in the
result of the following axis. I see no reason to change that.

Michael Kay


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To: Michael Kay
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Subject: RE: XQuey


Shouldn't it also contains some attributes nodes from the same element
which are
considered (by that implementation) to be after that attribute node to be
in document order?

For instance,

let $x := <a b="1" c="2"/> return
$x/@b/following::node()

may return either () or the attribute 'c', depending on how the
implementation deals with
document order?
- Jerome





                                                                           
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# I agree that the prose and formal meanings  of the following expression
# conflict, but I believe the formal semantics is the correct one, i.e.,
#
# $x/@attr/following::node() = ()
#

The XPath 1.0 definition is:

"the following axis contains all nodes in the same document as the context
node that are after the context node in document order, excluding any
descendants and excluding attribute nodes and namespace nodes"

(The accepted meaning of "any descendants" is "descendants of the context
node", while the accepted meaning of "attribute nodes and namespace nodes"
is "all attribute and namespace nodes")

This definition means that the following axis, starting at an attribute,
includes the children of the element containing that attribute.

Michael Kay