Re: [xml-dev] RE: working with text (was RE: [xml-dev] XPath 1.5?)

[Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com>]

At 12:45 PM 5/7/2002 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote:

>It's very useful because the representation doesn't _require_ you to
>process it in a particular way.  The looseness of the representation (as
>Uche pointed out earlier) is actually a benefit for exchanging XML among
>diverse processing environments.

Please illustrate this benefit with an example that is concrete enough to 
evaluate. Show me an example where the typing of XPath 2.0 gets in your way.

Jonathan