RE: [xsl] // expanding to descendant-or-self::node()

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Subject: RE: // expanding to descendant-or-self::node()
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:07:27 +0100

> > I think making "//" expand to "/descendant::" might well 
> have been a 
> > better design.
> 
> XPath 3.0 ?
> 

Unfortunately the cost to the user community of such improvements always
exceeds the benefits.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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