Re: [xml-dev] Concerned about the increasing reliance on XPath

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

On 09/05/2011 16:49, Stephen D Green wrote:
> I think we tend to hope that XPath expressions can be
> written such that they are immune from such implementation
> specifics

Yes, indeed, but there's no way to prevent tools vendors from adding 
their own usability layer around the base language, or improving these 
layers from one release to the next.

Michael Kay
Saxonica