Hi Daniel,

A nice geeky question for a Tuesday morning.

I agree with Sebastian's first point, that this 
is a dangerous road to travel, inasmuch as XPath 
is formal, and this, 'tain't, and appears to 
warrant something (but what?) without delivering 
it. (Not that I wouldn't be sorely tempted myself.)

But if it were XPath ... what's wrong with 
@tei:cert? That's at least correct XPath even if 
it's not how the attribute would be addressed 
within an actual processing context.

Alternatively, tei:*/@cert is surely better than 
anything else suggested so far; since the parent 
of an attribute must be an element, the "node()" node test isn't required.

Also, if we're sticking to quasi-pseudo-XPath, 
wouldn't "html:ul|html:ol" be better than 
"html:ul/html:ol" as you first had it (or maybe that was a typo)?

Cheers,
Wendell

At 06:38 AM 2/7/2006, Sebastian wrote:
>Torsten Schaßan wrote:
>
>>thereafter "<att>cert</att>"?
>ah you spotted my deliberate mistake...
>
>>Would
>>
>>tei:node()/@cert
>>
>>be too confusing?
>
>is that valid XPath? can you have a namespace-prefix on node()?
>possibly
>
>node()[namespace-uri()='http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0']/@cert


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