• From: David Lee <dlee@c...>
• To: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...>
• Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:49:21 +0000

> I know what you mean, it's intuitive to think attributes are
> children... but what you are asking there you could also say about
> parent nodes - where is it explicit saying that parent nodes are not
> children.
> 

Whats really confusing is the element constructors in both XSLT and XQuery treat children which are attribute nodes as children 
e.g 


<foo>{ attribute {"a"}{"b"} , "c" }</foo>

==>
<foo a="b">c</foo>

So obviously that means attributes are child nodes :)


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David A. Lee
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