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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Robie
> [mailto:jonathan.robie@datadirect-technologies.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:41 AM
> To: David Carlisle
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XPath 1.5? (was RE: [xml-dev] typing
> and markup)
>
> >In an Xpath/XSLT setting (if not XML Query) the support for schema
> >complex types vastly complicates the specification for very small
> >benefit and doesn't address any issue with Xpath/XSLT that has been
> >raised on any XSLT forum that I've seen over the last couple
> of years.
>
> Here's one such issue: I want to write a query or a transform
> whose output
> is guaranteed to be XHTML. I don't want to validate my output
> each time to
> see if it succeeded.
I thought we went down this road before. This is IMPOSSIBLE to guarantee
without post-validation of the query results. Plus, I haven't seen
anything in any of the XQuery specs that indicates this is something
that XQuery can come remotely close to solving.
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