See below On Dec 1, 2010, at 3:28 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> In the XPath spec, it says that "A node test node() is true for any node of > any type whatsoever." (http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#node-tests). > > So how come the attribute is not included in the following code: > > let $example := <bob time="now">Hello</bob> > return <results>{$example/node()}</results> > > => <results>Hello</results> This is the abbreviated form for $example/child::node(). On the child axis, no attributes are selected, so there's nothing for node() to test against. > > > but it is included in this code: > > let $example := <bob time="now">Hello</bob> > return <results>{$example/@*}</results> > > => <results time="now"/> This is an abbreviation for $example/attribute::*, which obviously does select attribute nodes. > > > So to get attributes and all other nodes I'd have to do : > > let $example := <bob time="now">Hello</bob> > return <results>{$example/(@*|node())}</results> > > => <results time="now">Hello</results> This is correct. -m _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
