Re: [xml-dev] Grand Challenge: the same query, independent of how data r

[Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@yahoo.de>]

Michael, this is an application-level response to the challenge of "structure-agnostic navigation". So far, so good, but how about the standards, XML technology - can it, will it evolve in order to enable new channels of navigation, additional to XPath + fn:doc + fn:collection?

Hans-Juergen

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Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> schrieb am Do, 20.2.2014:

  > You can encapsulate all three mechanisms behind a
 function (or two functions, one for each direction of the
 relationship), and I would certainly recommend doing that in
 many cases.