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At 7:01 PM +0200 10/2/02, Robin Berjon wrote:
>Hi Jeni,
>
>Jeni Tennison wrote:
>>>I don't believe that either and I'd add that it takes a pretty
>>>narrow view on XML but I can in fact see use cases for having access
>>>to types in XPath. For instance when I see an XSLT processor chew
>>>for several minutes on a very predictable document (granted, it's
>>>Java based, but still) I think that if it had access to schema
>>>information it could optimize a lot of what it's doing by skipping
>>>entire subtrees.
One thing I don't understand about this idea: what if the document is
invalid according to its schema? Is schema checking a prerequisite
for using the schema (which would seem to be a huge performance hit
in itself) or does the processor simply produce incorrect results in
this case?
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