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Jonathan Robie wrote:
> At 06:27 PM 5/7/2002 +0200, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
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>>Are we speaking of XPath (as the title says), XQuery or both?
>>The issue I see with XPath 2.0 is that it's replacing XPath 1.0 which is
>>now "legacy" and that up to now I don't see the benefit which could
>>compensate the cost of a migration...
>
>
> I expect that XPath 1.0 will continue to exist for a good long time.
Yes, that's what I meant. OTH, to keep it alive and eventually in sync
with other developments there might be *slight* mofifications to bring.
>
> One might ask whether we need XQuery, XPath 1.0, *and* XQuery 2.0. One
> reasonable position would be to drop XQuery 2.0. But the XSLT folks say
> their users really want this additional functionality.
I try to avoid speaking of what I don't know and I no idea on the topic
except that I don't see the value for my day to day work (but I do not
pretend to be representative either).
> I don't see how adding an XPath 1.5 helps here, I think it just adds to
> fragmentation of XPath.
I am not convinced that we need a XPath 1.5 right now, we just need to
make sure we can keep XPath and XSLT 1.0 alive. It may well be just more
EXSLT or a XPath 1.01 in 1 year but stating that XPath 1.0 won't change
is a way to kill it.
It doesn't have to come from the W3C either. EXSLT is (yet another)
example of successfull initiative which complement the work from the W3C.
Eric
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