RE: [xml-dev] xPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0 ... size increase over v1.0

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>]

> At the same time, I can also argue that if we do not allow | 
> or element construction the result will be regular, right? 
> But this cannot be solution also - because we need | 
> operator.. but do we need element construction in XPath??

XPath (both 1.0 and 2.0) does not allow construction of new nodes.

But of course it allows expressions whose values are not trees, for
example 2+2.

Michael Kay