> > The work-around using translate() works only for
> > a specific string which happens not to need "X", but not in the generic
> > case.
>
> The general case can be handled with concat()


Sure, and this is what I'm currently doing. However, this is just plain
overhead, which could be easily avoided by having a more flexible API to
XPath.


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