> For example, XSL patterns use
> 
> list/item
> 
> to express *all* items with parents of type list
> 
> The same thing in XPointer is, I think:
> 
> descendant(all,list).child(all,item)
> 
> Why not use the XSL syntax for this?
> 
> Furthermore, why not extend the XSL pattern syntax to allow for 
> things like
> 
> descendant(all,list).child(3,item)
> 
> (ie the third item in every list)
> 
> to be expressible as the XSL pattern:
> 
> list/item[3]
> 
> or something similar.
> 
> What do people think?

I think you'll find that a lot of people have similar thoughts...


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