Re: [xml-dev] XQuery Puzzle

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

> Is there any difference in the way that XPath 1.0 and 2.0 evaluate
> multiple predicates like this (there was a different result between
> some of the XQuery processors used and it wasn't clear whether these
> implemented XPath 1.0 or 2.0) ?

the reason the expression did not generate the result that you exected
was that the input consisted of a sequence of parentless elements.

parentless elements do not exist in the Xpath1  data model so this
situation can not arise in that case.


David