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Re: [xacml-comment] xpath-node-match and IIIG004Policy.xml. Forwarded message from John Merrells.

  • 1.  Re: [xacml-comment] xpath-node-match and IIIG004Policy.xml. Forwarded message from John Merrells.

    Posted 05-07-2003 13:13
    Can someone who is XPath-aware respond to this?
    
    Thanks,
    Anne Anderson
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    From: John Merrells <merrells@jiffysoftware.com>
    To: XACML COMMENT <xacml-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>
    Subject: Re: [xacml-comment] xpath-node-match and IIIG004Policy.xml
    Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:51:17 -0700
    
    
    On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 10:35  PM, John Merrells wrote:
    
    > The test uses the xpath expression '/' as the first argument for the
    > xpath-node-match function. The function specification says to
    > evaluate the enhanced xpath expression 'a|a//*|a//@*'. In this
    > case 'a' is '/'... which gives us the xpath expression '/|///*|///@*'.
    > Unfortunately neither '///*' nor '///@*' are valid xpath expressions.
    > Interesting problem...
    
    I don't think anyone responded to this.
    Which is correct the spec or the test?
    
    John
    
    
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