RE: [xml-dev] "self" axis for an attribute context node

From
Michael Kay <>
To
'Richard Tobin' <>,
Date
2007-03-12T15:44:50
ID
<016501c764bd$5ee0b610$6401a8c0@turtle>
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] "self" axis for an attribute context node
> 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.

Fair enough. 

"All elements, attributes, and namespaces whose name matches" would have
worked, I think, given that it's only for the self and ancestor-or-self axes
that you can actually mix those three. (But of course in 1.0 we didn't have
the ::element() test to match element nodes only, so * was a bit
overloaded.)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/