After thinking about it more I am actually unsure what the intent is. I 
looked at the spec and couldn't find a definitive answer so I went to 
the wfs-dev list.

-Justin

Andrea Aime wrote:
> Justin Deoliveira ha scritto:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The reason for my last question about BinarySpatialOperator was this filter:
>>
>> <Filter>
>>    <Intersects>
>>      <PropertyName />
>>      <Envelope>
>>      ...
>>      </Envelope>
>>    </Intersects>
>> </Filter>
>>
>> Note the empty property name. How i need to interpret this is as run the 
>> intersection against every geometric attribute in the type. 
> 
> Oh the horror... so this is the official WFS commitee answer?
> Bwhaaa, this means to have decent performance we'll have to specify
> which geometry property we want do deal with.
> Happily enough most databases are now able to do multi index access
> and bitmap operations among them before accessing real data, but not
> every db is able to do so (I suspect MySql and embedded ones do not
> cover this functionality, Postgres got it only in version 8.0 or 8.1
> afaik...)
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
> 
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