Thanks - feeling mildly illiterate now. I've been using xpath happily for
years: not sure why I felt the need to complain today :)
-Mike
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From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk]
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 10:14 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] returning nodes which have a specific child
But I still have to say it seems strange that "@*"
(apparently) can
match attributes on the child axis and node() can't ...
There are never any attributes on the child axis.
It's simpler to see the distinction if you first expand the
abbreviated syntax.
node()
doesn't have an explict axis specifier so it is an abbreviation for
child::node()
so the reason it doesn't match attributes is nothing to do
with the node test "node()" it is simply that the test is
applied to the child axis, and there are no attributes on the
child axis. The same is true of namespace nodes, incidentally.
@* is an abbrevation for
attribute::*
You can see that the node test node() is true for attribute
nodes if you apply it to an axis that has such nodes, as in:
attribute:node()
node() matches attributes in other contexts too, such as the
xpath2 expression
@foo instance of node()
which is true if there is a foo attribute.
David
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