RE: Ancestors and siblings

> Michael Kay is on record as having argued for the 
> preservation of these
> axes.  Since he lost the debate, 

Actually I half won, in that XQuery implementations are now allowed to
provide all the axes if they wish.

Since some vendors are implacably opposed to providing the full set of axes,
for reasons I have never understood, the other half of the process depends
on users voting with their money.

Michael Kay