Subject: RE: how to use // starting from the root, when i am few steps und er the root, From: Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:11:57 -0400 (EST) |
At 22 Aug 2000 19:06 +0200, Spychalski, Frank wrote: > ->-----Original Message----- > ->From: David Allouche [mailto:david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > ->Subject: RE: how to use // starting from the root, when i am few steps > ->und er the root, > > Hi, > > ->PS: As far as I know, select="///element... is not legal. > > I didn't find anything that said /// is illegal. It works fine with my > version of Xalan... > And I think it's more logical to write /// than to write //, because for me > the first slash represents the root element and the second and third are the > short version for descendant-or-self, if you look at // you don't know (ok '//' is the abbreviated syntax for '/descendant-or-self::node()/'. See how the expansion contains two '/' that are used to delimit location path steps, and that there is both an axis specifier ('descendant-or-self::') and a node test ('node()') between the delimiters. You need both an axis specifier and a node test to make a minimal location path step in XPath's full syntax. (Location path steps also include zero or more predicates.) Expanding '///' gets you '/descendant-or-self::node()//' (or '//descendant-or-self::node()/'). Maybe Xalan is recursively expanding any '//' to get you '/descendant-or-self::node()/descendant-or-self::node()/', which is legal full syntax, but I don't know that it's proper to use the middle '/' in '///' twice like that. If Xalan does evaluate '///' as '/descendant-or-self::node()/descendant-or-self::node()/', the expression is going to slow down your processing even more than the single '//' does. > YOU do know, but the average user doesn't) if it's starting at the root > element or if it has the meaning of .// > But thats just my 2c. It makes sense to me that "//" starts at the root because of its leading "/", and it makes sense to me that ".//something" or, for example, "PLAY//TITLE" doesn't. Of course, the average user can also download the XSLT and XPath Quick Reference at http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/. Regards, Tony Graham ====================================================================== Tony Graham mailto:tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9632 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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