On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Scott Cantor wrote:
> Will Norris wrote on 2009-12-03:
>> fine by me. Scott, would that just mean that we drop the #WithComments
>> canonicalization transform?
>
> If you're explicitly mentioning it, yes, it turns out that's irrelevant to
> the end result. The use of URI="#foo" as a reference syntax throws away all
> comment nodes up front before c14n ever happens.
oops, also meant to clarify this last point. My XPath is rusty, but you're saying that an XPath query containing only a single element ID reference excludes comment nodes? I couldn't find anything to that effect in the XPath spec, but that doesn't mean much. I'm just curious why this syntax automatically drops comment nodes.
-will
