Mike,



At 03:11 PM 7/1/2002, you wrote:
It's not that difficult. Saxon doesn't quite achieve this today but it
will in the next release (I just tested it).

X[position() = 1 and name()='factorof']



can be statically rewritten as



X[1][name()='factorof']

That's cool!



Will it do the same for X[name()='factorof' and position()=1] ?



Cheers,
Wendell


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