In article <00df01c7649e$1db59bc0$6401a8c0@turtle> you write:
>> Others might be able to explain the rationale behind this
>> design decision, if that's your question.
>You'll have to ask James Clark.
>
>I think it would have made much more sense for a NameTest to match all nodes
>with the required name, irrespective of node kind.
That would have meant that "foo" would match PIs with target foo. And
"*" is a name test too, and we don't want * to match PIs, comments,
text nodes and document nodes. But no doubt some other way of
avoiding those problems could be thought up.
-- Richard
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