• From: richard@i... (Richard Tobin)
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:34:36 +0000 (GMT)

In article <00df01c7649e$1db59bc0$6401a8c0@turtle> you write:

>> Others might be able to explain the rationale behind this 
>> design decision, if that's your question.
				
>You'll have to ask James Clark.
>
>I think it would have made much more sense for a NameTest to match all nodes
>with the required name, irrespective of node kind.

That would have meant that "foo" would match PIs with target foo.  And
"*" is a name test too, and we don't want * to match PIs, comments,
text nodes and document nodes.  But no doubt some other way of
avoiding those problems could be thought up.

-- Richard
-- 
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in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

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