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Re: human-talk for "::"
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- Subject: Re: human-talk for "::"
- From: Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 15:04:52 -0600 (MDT)
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
> ancestor-or-self::* could be acceptably "read" as "ancestor-or-self
> _which is_ *"
David's explanation is sufficient but he failed to mention the word
'axis' for some reason.
A concise but not always accurate reading would be
...an element that is 'along the ancestor-or-self axis', which means
'is a member of the "ancestor-or-self" set of nodes'
* has a more specific meaning, though. It's not always an element,
and there are namespace issues.
- Mike
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