RE: RE: Matching Attributes with @

[John Robert Gardner <jrgardn at emory dot edu>]

On Fri, 26 May 2000 paulo.gaspar@krankikom.de wrote:

> 
> Keep in mind that I am talking in a figurative way. This
> way of thinking helped me to understand some template/XPath
> related issues, but I am NOT being precise and I am NOT being
> formal. Just figurative.
> 
> I say "tree" and "nodes" in a data-structures-like kind of
> vocabulary, as in the "nodes" of a binary "tree".
> 
> In this informal perspective, wouldn't the element - to
> which an attribute belongs - be its parent?


Paulo:

Yes, thanks much for your help.  To clarify:  

My current prject is, in fact, to speak informally of Xpath in a document
about it.  However, as I have found that, to the uninitiated, the blurring
that can happen is a problem, such as always using "type" and "name" in
examples of attributes, can confuse a novice reader when I am using proper
terminology: "attribute type name" -- which at the least can be redundant
or confusing.  Same with the parent/child attribute issue.  conceptually,
yes, but terminologically, it blurs key conceptual lines.

Please, again, know that I appreciate all efforts to make these spec's
human readable.

jr


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> 
> What I said is that attributes have no descendents/children.
> 
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Paulo
> 
> 
> > --- Original Message ---
> > John Robert Gardner <jrgardn@emory.edu> Wrote on 
> > On Fri, 26 May 2000, Paulo Gaspar wrote:
> >
> > > Think of an XML document as a tree of nodes. There is
> > > nothing else than that.
> >
> > This would be consistent with the post elsewhere
> > today on this matching @ thread, that matching an @ does >
> not match the element node that contains it.  To do so
> > one would have > to do "*[@foo]", correct?
> > So @ are children, but those children do not have
> > parents?  
> 
> 
> 
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