> I know what you mean, it's intuitive to think attributes are
> children... but what you are asking there you could also say about
> parent nodes - where is it explicit saying that parent nodes are not
> children.
>
Whats really confusing is the element constructors in both XSLT and XQuery treat children which are attribute nodes as children
e.g
<foo>{ attribute {"a"}{"b"} , "c" }</foo>
==>
<foo a="b">c</foo>
So obviously that means attributes are child nodes :)
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David A. Lee
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