[xquery-talk] Collections - family relationships

[Joe Wicentowski]

XPath axes only operate within the bounds of a single document.

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
> Certainly in the XPath sense and why not in the general sense (whatever that
> means).
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> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Joe Wicentowski <joewiz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Do you mean "sibling" in the sense of the XPath axes preceding-sibling
>> and following-sibling, or in the general sense of documents being
>> "children" of a "parent" collection and thus "siblings"?
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>> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > If x is the document element of a document in a collection, is it the
>> > sibling of y that is the document element of another document in the
>> > same
>> > collection?
>> >
>> > If not why not?
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