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Murali Mani <mani@C...> writes:

> my broad understanding is:
> 
> W3C XML-Schema requires that each field expression return one and exactly
> one value.
> 
> If we use | it may not be able to ensure this. I would assume that | is
> not allowed to be part of field..

You are allowed several alternative simple path expressions separated
by '|' for fields.  All that is required is that for each selected
element, exactly one of those alternatives matches.

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