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Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> [...] I agree that an annotation system would be great for XPath
> 2.0, and, in fact, Eric and I had been discussing how to add such a thing to
> 4Suite so we could implement some of the modular data typing straw men we've
> been discussing.
>
> My foirst comment is that it should be generic annotation, not just type
> annotation. My thoughts would be:
>
> Add an "annotation" property to each node. This is a simple key/value pair
> where the key is URI (or is that anathema ;-) ) and the value is any XPath
> 1.0 object (which would even allow annotations to be cross-node links).
>
> You can access any particular annotation for any particular XPath object with
> a function lookup(annoitation-key). Of course, some facilities, such as
> optimizers, might use annotations behind the scenes, directly.
>
> Does this sound like a good general approach?
Cost has something like this:
<URL: http://www.flightlab.com/cost/manual.html#PROPERTIES >
I've found it to be a very useful feature.
--Joe English
jenglish@flightlab.com
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