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Re: [xsl] Does the count() function require access to the whole subtree?

2014-01-14 08:51:28
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> 
wrote:
I mean that within the set of nodes selected by //x, there may be two nodes A 
and B such that A is an ancestor of B.

(I'm not using the term overlap in the sense of non-hierarchic markup: 
perhaps that's the cause of any confusion).

Yes that is a big source of confusion. "Overlap" in its general sense
means that their isn't proper containment -- just intersection.

And this is not the case here at all.

It would be precise and clear to replace the term "overlapping" with
something like "containment".


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