[Versa] More on literal queries

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 13:52 -0600, Michael Olson wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> >>> - The '.' Expression: Shorthand for the the data type instance
> >>> associated with the current Versa Context
> >>>
> >>
> >> This can be "current" from the XPath spec.
> >
> > Except that it's not current().  Remember that "." and "current()" are
> > quite different in XPath.  More confusion.
> >
> 
> Right, I forgot.  I still think we need the "." though, otherwise it  
> feels to much like "magic" that (!x : $x) returns what "." used to.

OK.  That would be a convincing counter-example.  :-)

> Maybe we just call it "dot"

Fine with me.


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