Re: [xml-dev] XPath terminology

[Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>]

On Mar 3, 2004, at 5:23 AM, Philippe Poulard wrote:

> i need to name a kind of path that is produced from a given node :
> -it starts from the root
> -it descends from child to child until the node
> -it only allow predicates with an index, such as [n]
>
> examples :
> /foo/bar[2]/oof[5]/@rab
> /foo/bar[2]/oof[5]/text()[2]
>
> is there a name or should i invent one ?

I'm pretty sure that this is what Ted Nelson called a "Tumbler" in the 
Xanadu terminology. -Tim

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