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Kevin Jones wrote:
>On Friday 24 December 2004 14:36, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
>
>
>>Kevin Jones wrote:
>>
>>Of course XPath is always streamable, if you have no
>>practical limitations (e.g. you're willing to store all
>>node data and implement unbounded look-ahead). When
>>people speak of a "streamable subset", they mean a subset
>>that works practically with most streaming host
>>languages, meaning that these host languages should not
>>have to compromise too much memory or state complexity in
>>order to satisfy the scope of node requests from the
>>XPath subset.
>>
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>I was probably being a little brief. I was not intending
>just to comment that XPath was theoretically possible, but
>the assumption you need a subset for this case may be
>wrong. Taking the examples of storing all node data and
>unbounded look-ahead, clearly neither of these are
>requirements of streaming XPath, just features of some way
>of implementing it.
>
>
I think I've used some loose language of my own. I tried to be a bit
more scrupulous in my last post:
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200412/msg00655.html
Does the conceptualization I present at the end of that posting help
clarify the idea of an "XPath subset friendly to SAX processors"?
>I would say that having written/supported one streamable
>subset for a few years they never implemement enough. Some
>of the harder features to implement in a streamable way are
>just the ones that make XPath better than any old pattern
>language, e.g. predicates as expressions.
>
>
This is true, somewhat unfortunately.
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