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Re: [xml-dev] Question about XPath 2.0

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To: Murali Mani <mani@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Question about XPath 2.0
From: Christian Nentwich <christian@systemwire.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 11:58:25 +0100
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
In-reply-to: <Pine.SOL.4.33.0305191921590.3720-100000@panther.cs.ucla.edu>
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Reply-to: Christian Nentwich <christian@systemwire.com>


> I was just glancing at XPath 2.0 (after a long time !!), I find a
> "ForExpr" as part of XPath 2.0.  This was surprising, can you provide me a
> reasoning behind this?

That's been there for a while. I complained about this ages ago, the
W3C seems to be confused about what is their query language, and what
their path language. XPath and XQuery share redundant features.

The real problem with this is that it is getting harder and harder to
do static analysis of XPath...

Christian

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- Question about XPath 2.0
  - From: Murali Mani <mani@CS.UCLA.EDU>

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