RE: here() context and comment nodes
Christian Geuer-Pollmann <[email protected]>
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--On Dienstag, 7. Mai 2002 10:37 -0700 John Boyer <[email protected]> wrote: > The expectation of comment infestation in the XPath element content was > the biggest reason why we defined here() to return the element node > parent when it didn't appear in an attribute. Here's the one that > originally shook my boots, so to speak: > > he<!-- Yikes -->re()/blah/blah/blah > > This is legal XML, so it has to be supported. In general, take the > 'string' corresponding to the Xpath element content, which concatenates > all text nodes descendants. Hi John, OK, that's what I do. Interesting that the above is legal. Maybe we should include such an obfuscation into our interops ;-) Thanks, Christian