5840 2008-07-08 07:47:19 +0000 [XSLT 2.1] Enhancements to pattern syntax 2014-05-15 14:00:19 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT XSLT 3.0 Working drafts PC Windows NT CLOSED DUPLICATE 5464 P2 normal --- 1 mike mike public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 21088 0 mike 2008-07-08 07:47:19 +0000 (Captured en-passant during a WG telcon) There are a number of restrictions on patterns that don't really have any good justification. This was an area we left largely untouched in 2.0 except where we automatically inherited changes being made to XPath expressions. Constructs that would often be useful in patterns include: * parentheses: (//title)[1] * union in a step: (chapter|appendix)/title * anchoring the pattern to a specific document: $lookup-doc//entry doc('lookup.xml')//entry * matching any node that is a member of a preselected node-set $preselection * use of "." with a predicate: .[f:is-special(.)] All of these can currently be expressed, but often rather inelegantly; the 4th case above, for example, is match="node()[. intersect $preselection]". 22049 1 mike 2008-09-26 13:22:07 +0000 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5464 ***