RE: Error 80004005 eof - Microsoft XML Parser (September Drop)

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Andy,

At 04:47 PM 10/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>The loophole exists in the XPath BNF:
>
>[4] Step ::= AxisSpecifier NodeTest Predicate* | AbbreviatedStep
>
>[12] AbbreviatedStep ::= '.' | '..'
>
>The AbbreviatedStep may not have a predicate after it, unlike a regular
>NodeTest Step.  I can't think of a reason why this shouldn't be allowed, so
>I assume it was an oversight by the W3C committee.  Maybe it will be fixed
>in Errata or in a future version of XPath.

Thanks for this. It could turn up as a gotcha anytime. "No predicates after 
abbreviated steps . or .."

So Ben, .[ancestor::sublist[1]] should be rejected by a conforming processor.

Regards,
Wendell

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