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Re: XPath conformance? was RE: [xml-dev] storing XML files
- From: Evan Lenz <elenz@xyzfind.com>
- To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:24:40 -0700
Mike Champion wrote:
> Also, extension functions are defined in XSLT, not XPath, so neither
adding
> operators or functions to the XPath 1.0 spec is any more or less correct.
The XPath evaluation context includes a function library, not an operator
library (and the former implies no change to the grammar). This is an
important distinction, but I'm ready to be done arguing about it :-)
> If you want a "standard" query language for XML DBMS, wait until XQuery
> comes out, (or get the XML world to agree that XSLT is "the" XML query
> language, I don't care) then we can argue about each other's conformance.
Agreed.
Evan