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Subject: Re: [xsl] Sibling axis and as="element()"
From: "andrew welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:30:28 +0100
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On 8/1/06, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...is this because "/[2]" was thought to be impossible, or a 1.0
> compatiblity issue, but /[2] certainly exists here.
No. There is ever at most one / node in a tree. / is never an element
node, it selects document nodes (called root nodes in xpath 1) in your
example there is one / node which has three children. /*[2] would select
the second element child of / (which is the second foo element.
<sigh/>... staring too hard at the same bit of code.
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