[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 87888] XPath expression `//node() ` shouldn’t match the DOCTYPE node

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87888





--- Comment #6 from Mathias Bynens <mathias at qiwi.be>  2012-05-31 06:50:02 PST ---
This is probably a misinterpretation of http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#NT-NodeType, which says:

> A node test `node()` is true for any node of any type whatsoever.

This should have said:

> A node test `node()` is true for any node of any XPath-defined node type whatsoever.

This is clear when you look at the production below, which only mentions the specified node types:

> [7]   	NodeTest	   ::=   	NameTest	
> | NodeType '(' ')'	
> | 'processing-instruction' '(' Literal ')'	

Where `NodeTest` is defined as:

> [38]   	NodeType	   ::=   	'comment'	
> | 'text'	
> | 'processing-instruction'	
> | 'node'

Document type nodes are neither of those four options.

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