> From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> > Date: Thursday, 15 August 2013 6:14 PM > > I've always felt the right way for XPath/XQuery to achieve that is > some kind of "abstract axis" notion where the relationship is accessed > using an axis, say "bookings-for-room", and the implementation of the > axis hides the implementation detail. .. and .. > From: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@gmail.com> > Date: Friday, 16 August 2013 5:17 AM > > As I followed much of this discussion it struck me as a bit document > centric, so I absolutely agree; "nodes on demand"... I have a project > I'd like to embark on if I can find the time, which is driving > something such as Saxon directly from a graph database. Ultimately, I > want graph traversal and graph composition. I see tools such as xPath > and XSLT as pretty good competition for some of the current ways to do > that. Makes me think of the abstract axis as an RDF predicate, meaning we really can model "the universe" via RDF triples?? :) -Gareth |