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Re: [xml-dev] An XML API using Java streams


(2) A great challenge - and perhaps a hopeless one - would be to create an expressiveness which could at least be a far cry of what XPath offers. It is strange to say
     N.walk(Axis.child("city")).flatMap(Axis.attribute("name").map(Node::stringValue)
when what you really want to say is
     city/@name


Excellent point. However, dropping into another language does have all sorts of disadvantages: apart from the learning issues, there's the lack of compile-time syntax checking and type checking, the cost of dynamic compilation/interpretation, etc.

One thing to look at, perhaps, is how it translates into Scala, where you can define your own operators:

A.flatMap(B)   -->   A/B

A.attribute(B)  -->   A @ B

etc; and then we start to have something very XPath-like, but with a syntax that's compiled and validated by the host language.

Michael Kay
Saxonica 



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