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> I think this hints at the missing link for me in this idea of
> using axes for
> XPath m12n. It's the fact that they operate only in terms of
> nodes (or,
> really, node sets).
Yes, I think one thing we've learnt from the problems with "namespace
nodes" is that representing all information in terms of nodes is a bad
idea, because nodes carry too much baggage - they have identity, they
belong to a document, they have a parent. Can two elements in different
documents share a "type node"? If the context item is a "type node",
what is the value of "/"?
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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