At 5:58 AM -0700 5/13/02, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>I don't think that merging XQuery and XSLT is useful, and we are not
>doing that, at least not at present. Both XQuery and XSLT needed a
>path expression language, and I do think that it makes sense for
>them to use the same path expression language.
>
Perhaps, but if so that path expression language should be based on
the intersection of the needs rather than the union. Jeni's pointed
out a lot of places where features just aren't needed for XSLT2, but
for me the really big one is types and the PSVI. I think everything
that requires schemas and types is unnecessary for XSLT, and that an
intersected XPath 2.0 would move all that material off into specs
that actually needed it.
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