• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• To: james.anderson@a...
• Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 11:29:30 +0000 (GMT)

> The result of a literal parse of the xpath expression (from
> WD-xsl-19980818)

Why use such an early draft, which has a syntax completely different
from XPath 1.0 ?

> "list[attribute(ordered)='yes']/item[first-of-type()]"

That would be

 "list[attribute::ordered='yes']/item[1]"

in Xpath.

David

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