David Carlisle wrote:

> the xpath expression node() doesn't select document
nodes.  in
> both cases they are abbreviations of child::node() and document
>
nodes are never children.

  So that's why the spec defines the case of
document-node() as a
special case (re the axis used).  That's what I was
afraid of.
Thanks for the explanation!

  Regards,

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Florent Georges
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