At Fri, 05 Dec 2014 11:55:39 +0100,
Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> 
> Am 04.12.2014 um 21:25 schrieb Sascha Ziemann:
> > It seems to me that the use of //* duplicates the inner 'a' node:
> 
> That's not what it does.  I'm not completely sure that XPath does
> require this behavior, but I tend to believe this is the right thing to
> do.  "//" is supposed to yield all descendant nodes, in this example the
> second "span" (sure including this "span"'s descendant "a") and the "a"
> node itself.

Ok this could be true.  Saxon seems to do it in this way.

echo '<span><a/></span>' | java -cp saxon9he.jar net.sf.saxon.Query 
'!omit-xml-declaration=1' -s:- -qs:'//*' ; echo
<span><a/></span><a/>

Regards,
Sascha

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