• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Oleg A. Paraschenko'" <olpa@x...>,"'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:55:41 -0000

> I thought that the following XPath steps are equivanent:
> 
> something[name()='lalala']
> something[self::lalala]
> 
> However, it isn't so.
  <snip/>
> Why does it so?

A NameTest used in a step of a path expression selects nodes of the
principal node kind for the axis used in that step. The principal node kind
for the self axis is "element". A well-known gotcha (well-known to those who
know it, anyway). In 2.0 you can write self::attribute(lalala).

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

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