[basex-talk] slash operator in Basex 9.0.2

I have noticed that in BaseX 9.0.2 a query like <j>fgrtu</j>/data(.)/replace(., "g", "h") gets evaluated (returning "fhrtu"), while in BaseX 8.x, Exist, and Zorba I get an error message (since, as expected, replace() is preceded not by a node but a string). Is this a bug? Ciao, Giuseppe