need clarifications on XPath vs pattern match

[Didier PH Martin]

Hi

I got a comment on my transformation chapter that brought me some doubts.
The comment says about the following sentence:

"XPath is not based on XML notation but more as a string notation which
resemble a file system path. It is intended, for instance, to be used as a
string appended to a URL used to access an XML document or as a value for
the XSLT template match attribute"

"That’s a bad example because the match attribute is a pattern and patterns
are defined in XSLT, not in XPath."

I always thought that the match attribute was taking XPath expression has
value. I am wrong to think that? Am I wrong also to think that XPointer is
using XPath expressions?

Didier PH Martin
mailto:martind at netfolder.com
http://www.netfolder.com


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