Hi Dimitre,

Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
> 
> 2. A more direct answer (page 406):
>    "Although the formal usually give the answer you would expect intuitively,
>     there can be surprises. For example, you might expect the pattern "node()"
>     to match any node; but it doesn't. As an expression it short for
>    "./child::node", and the only nodes that this can select are nodes that are
>     children of something. Since root nodes, attribute nodes and namespace nodes
>     are never children of another node, they will never be matched by the
>     pattern "node()""
> 
> I can only add, that due to the fact that only the "child" and "attribute" axis are
> allowed in a pattern (excluding contents of predicates where any XPath expression is
> OK), this effectively means, that namespace nodes cannot be matched by a pattern.
> 
which very nicely explains my puzzle on the 'Re:  "*|@*|text()" vs.
"node()"' thread - thanks!

Francis.

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