Compile and evaluate full XPath 1.0 expressions, not just location paths.
Add the four-type Value (node-set, boolean, number, string) with the spec's
coercion rules and canonical number formatting, a recursive-descent parser
for the operator grammar (or/and, equality, relational, additive,
multiplicative, unary minus, union) whose grammatical position disambiguates
* and the operator keywords, function calls, variable references, and filter
expressions. Predicates are now arbitrary expressions (a numeric predicate
is a position test). Comparison follows the node-set quantification rules.
Query gains value/number/string/boolean accessors and a $variable binding
map; the core functions last, position, count, not, true, false, boolean,
number, and string ship with it.
Closes#42
Rebuild the XPath engine on the parent-aware tree. Add an XPath node
abstraction (tree, attribute, namespace) with document order, and navigate
all thirteen axes: child, descendant, parent, ancestor, following-sibling,
preceding-sibling, following, preceding, attribute, namespace, self,
descendant-or-self, ancestor-or-self. Support the ./../@/// abbreviations
and processing-instruction() node tests. Reverse axes number nearest-first
for positional predicates; results return de-duplicated in document order.
The attribute axis excludes xmlns declarations; the namespace axis surfaces
in-scope namespace nodes.
Closes#40
