So is there a historical reason for having preceding/following instead
of one of the following: preceding/proceeding, preceding/postceding,
previous/following?
Well, postceding isn't an English word, and proceeding means something quite
different, so the only other candidate here is previous.
I grew up with Codasyl which used next/prior.
Standards committees do sometimes spend time debating such issues but when
it's a choice between two words that will do equally well, there's no way of
telling why one was preferred. Perhaps, if it was considered at all, people
might have argued that "previous" can only have a temporal meaning, whereas
"preceding" and "following" can refer to any sequence, spatial, temporal,
causal, etc.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
I hope there isn't too trivial of a question. It is just one of those
things that has been sitting in the back of my mind these few days
that the list brought up again.
Jonathan Gorman
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:32:28 GMT, David Carlisle
<davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
Is previous axes part of XSLT/XPath 2.0?
yes
What if I am stuck with XSLT/XPath 1.0 for now?
It was part (of XPath 1 as well.
Except of course that I can only spell when reading
messages not when
typing them, the axis (in xpath 1 and 2) is preceding:: not
previous::
sorry about that.
David
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