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Re: [xsl] XPath 1.0 issue
Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath 1.0 issue From: Jack Matheson <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:32:42 -0600 |
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'(' and ')' appear as separate terminals in the grammar, therefore a space is allowed between them. (They are listed separately in this production rule, and also in the list of ExprToken symbols in rule [28].) If the grammar had been written as '()' (compare production [5] which uses '::', and production [12] which uses '..') then no space would be permitted.
It's the fact that VariableReference ('$' QName) is an ExprToken that ensures no space is allowed after the '$'. The rule is "Whitespace may be freely added before or after any ExprToken", and by implication, not within an ExprToken; the definition of ExprToken is in the following section.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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From: Jack Matheson [mailto:jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 15 February 2005 13:55
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Subject: [xsl] XPath 1.0 issue
Xalan and Saxon both allow an arbitrary number of space characters between the parenthesis in a node test, and I was
wondering if this is technically legal in XPath 1.0.
An example would be: <xsl:apply-templates select="node( )"/>
The XPath TR specifically states that whitespace can exist between tokens, but I'm not exactly sure how "token" is defined after reading the recent thread concerning "$ varname".
A node test in the XPath TR is defined as:
[7] NodeTest ::= NameTest
| NodeType '(' ')'
| 'processing-instruction' '(' Literal ')'
Can anyone explain this to me?
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