RE: [xml-dev] XPath/XQuery/XSLT fn:node() question

[David Lee <dlee@calldei.com>]

Could you reference where in the specs that the child axis doesn't contain attributes ?
The best I can find is : 

* the child axis contains the children of the context node


And then:   
* the attribute axis contains the attributes of the context node; the axis will be empty unless the context node is an element


But nothing I can spot that says attributes are not children.  
I 'know' the answer  but I can't find where in the specs its explicit.
 

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David A. Lee
dlee@calldei.com
http://www.xmlsh.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@nag.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:13 PM
> To: David Lee
> Cc: 'xml-dev@lists.xml.org'
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XPath/XQuery/XSLT fn:node() question
> 
> On 28/02/2012 18:06, David Lee wrote:
> > I know that the fn:node() function does not select attributes but I
> > cannot find any definitive reference to that.
> 
> It's not actually a function but a node test. It does match on
> attributes, but because you have not supplied an axis it defaults (like
> every other expression) to the child: axis, and their are no attributes
> on that axis.
> 
> attribute::node()
> 
> does select attributes.
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#NT-AxisSpecifier
> >
> > I read:
> >
> > child::node() selects all the children of the context node, whatever
> > their node type
> >
>  > But no reference to excluding attribute nodes.
> 
> there are never any attribute document or namespace nodes in the child
> axis.
> 
> David
> 
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