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Re: simple XPath question

To: James Melton <james dot melton at cylogix dot com>
Subject: Re: [xsl] simple XPath question
From: Jeni Tennison <mail at jenitennison dot com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:00:40 +0100
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Organization: Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd
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Hi James,

> Did the language designers realize that subtle notions of context
> combined with implicit referents (e.g. the node list referent for
> position()) would be very confusing?

They probably wanted to make sure that they could make some money by
writing books explaining it ;)

Jeni

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