Re: [xml] one more xpath patch

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 12:43:44PM -0700, Aleksey Sanin wrote:
> Hi, Daniel!!./ap
>
> I have one more xpath patch but I would like to have you review
> before commiting it. Consider the following xpath expressions:
>     string(self::node())
>     string()
> According to http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-tests both these
> expressions should be totaly equvivalent:
>     "A node test node() is true for any node of any type whatsoever."
> However, if the current node is namespace then LibXML returns
> an empty string for the first expression and correct value (href) for
> the second one. I found that the same problem happens when
> node is an attribute. The suggested patch removes all checks
> for the "::node()" function (type == NODE_TYPE_NODE) as it is
> required by xpath spec. Please let me know your opinion on this.

  Hum, you could end-up with selecting a DTD node or an XINCLUDE 
leftover node. Maybe extending the node selection to have the namespace
and attributes nodes would be safer, no ?

Daniel

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