RE: variable binding in XPath was: Comments on XPath (30th April)

> 
> A suggestion.
> 
> * Remove the "full" for from Xpath.
> * Provide a simpler context based for, either something like
> 
> "foreach" Expr "return" Expr
> or something more symbolic, Xpath-like  syntax, I'd quite like
> 
>  Expr => Expr  
> 
> (with => taking the same precedence as /, and doing a similar 
> job but not restricted to node sequences and not applying 
> doc-order to the
> result) I know => is currently being used for something else....
> 
> * Provide let (with the current XQuery syntax)
> 

I think that's a nice idea... I'll chew on it.

Michael Kay

Received on Wednesday, 22 May 2002 07:10:06 UTC