You're saying that just for a question of readabilty or clarity,
right? However, i saw in many beginner tutorials the explanation of
such xpaths and their abbreviations, so i think that's one of the
things one first learn.
Neverthless the result is the same...
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:57:04 -0500, Wendell Piez
<wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
Not just because I guess it to be less bug-prone, but also because I think
it's more intuitively obvious, I have started using
/descendant::Menu[$pos]
as an alternative to the above.
A lot of XSLT code ends up getting thrown at newcomers to maintain these
days. Part of my job is to make my code as clear as I can to people
starting with the language. It's a design, er, "wrinkle" that //node[$pos]
doesn't return what people guess it should (expect in buggy systems),
before they learn the gory details of the XPath productions -- and that
includes implementers. (I know this isn't the bug you found, but it's
nearby isn't it?)
Cheers,
Wendell
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