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Re: Counting self axes

From: richard@------.--.--.-- (------- -----)
To: NULL
Date: 8/1/2005 11:28:00 PM
In article <1122920939.155134.283100@g...>,
 <rob.guitar.rob@g...> wrote:

>This may be a stupid question, but if you count a self axe will it
>always return 1?

The self axis of a node always contains exactly one node (the node
itself).  So count(.../self::node()) will always return 1, if "..."
selects a single node.

self::* on the other hand only matches elements, because the principal
node type for the self axis is element.  So if "..." selects a single
element, count(.../self::*) will return 1.  If it selects a single
node of some other type, it will return 0.

-- Richard


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