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Posted to dev@xalan.apache.org by David Marston/Cambridge/IBM <da...@us.ibm.com> on 2002/02/26 21:15:18 UTC

Re: Multiple default namespaces cannot be selected with "".

>what about:  //*[name()='one']/two/@three
>shouldn't I be required instead
>to do //*[name()='one']/*[name()='two']/@three ?

The reason that two is an acceptable abbreviation for child::two is
that XPath 2.5 requires that it be so. This works in your test because
your "two" element was not namespaced. You should read about XPath
treatment of namespaces in a good XSLT/XPath book (like Doug Tidwell's
book) rather than relying solely on the specs.
.................David Marston