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Re: XPath2 preceding / following axis and attributes

2006-01-10 04:24:47
On 1/10/06, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> wrote:
I think the results here are correct. The text node "205" is a descendant of
the element containing the attribute, but it's not a descendant of the
attribute, so it is included in the result.

Or have I misunderstood?


You're right -- and this particular case is indeed quite tricky --
thanks to Soren Kuula for raising the question.

So, as a next attempt, are the following two XPath expressions equivalent:


       someElement/@someAttribute/following::someNodeTest


  and



      someElement/@someAttribute/../following::someNodeTest
   |
      someElement/@someAttribute/../descendant::someNodeTest



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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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