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Alan Gutierrez wrote:
>* Jeff Rafter <lists@jeffrafter.com> [2004-12-27 14:40]:
>
>
>>>> Say the test was /foo/bar/[baz2="test"]/baz1
>>>>
>>>> <foo>
>>>> <bar>
>>>> <baz1/>
>>>> <baz2>test</baz2>
>>>> <baz3/>
>>>> </bar>
>>>> </foo>
>>>>
>>>> If your schema stated that the children were (baz1,baz2,baz3)
>>>> wouldn't you have enough information to know to surrender when
>>>> you reached baz3?
>>>>
>>>>
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>
>
>>Unfortunately that solution doesn't win much against the DOM or other
>>tree based models.
>>
>>
>
> It does if your predicate can fail early.
>
>
>
>>For example if your schema asserted (as you say) that the content
>>model of bar be (baz1, baz2, baz3) and that baz2="test" always--
>>then you could "surrender" at the point of baz1 by starting with
>>the assumption of validity. If the document turns out to not be
>>valid you could raise some special error that says essentially--
>>hey we assumed this was valid and it isn't so we don't know if we
>>reported the right thing or not.
>>
>>
>
> Or, to simply the implementation, a valid document could be a
> requirement, which is what I was imagining.
>
>
Ah. The pipelining approach. Perfectly sensible. Luckily most schema
languages support validation via streaming API (Schematron is a bit of a
problem, unless its query sublanguages are themselves restricted to our
XPattern), so we don't run into the awkward problem that we have to tree
up a document earlier in the pipeline for validation.
But I'd say for a first pass at XPattern we leave out Schema aids and
maybe they could be a subject of a later "level", as long as one could
work in ecumenical schema language support.
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