Patterns and location paths

[Richard Tobin]

Mike Kay has pointed out my error.  I had thought that //bar expanded
to

  from-descendants(bar)

but in fact it expands to

  from-descendants-or-self(node())/from-children(bar)

and this is indeed explicitly stated in the spec.

-- Richard

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