Re: compiling XPath to Scheme source code

  Hello Dmitry,

  thank you for suggestions.

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:08:18 +0300
"Dmitry Lizorkin" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> >   I'd like to get suggestions what other XPath issues should
> > be tested before starting to make a real implementation.
> 
> You mignt be interesting for you to test some of the following XPath
> issues:
> 
>   a. Predicates that involve context position and/or size when the
>   location
> step is applied to a non-singleton nodeset. In particular, your example
> > /AAA/BBB[1]        # selecting a node by its position
> for the document like the one below:
> 
> (*TOP* (AAA (BBB "11") (BBB "12"))
>               (AAA (BBB "21") (BBB "22")))
> 
>   b. Several predicates, some of them to involve context position and/or
> size. For example:
> 
> child::para[attribute::type='warning'][position()=5]
> 
> Please note the semantical difference of this location path with the one
> below:
> 
> child::para[position()=5][attribute::type="warning"]
> 
>   c. Compling XPath location paths that contain non-desceding axes, e.g.
> following-sibling or parent.
> 
> Regards,
> Dmitry
> 
> 

-- 
Oleg Paraschenko


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