- From: Evan Lenz <evan@evanlenz.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:38:58 -0700
- To: "Kay, Michael" <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Cc: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, public-qt-comments@w3.org
If we remove the "full" for from XPath, then I agree that let would be needed. I don't want to give up the ability to access intermediate context nodes (as opposed to being restricted to the ends of the spectrum, i.e. . and current()). Evan On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 03:50 AM, Kay, Michael wrote: >> >> 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 >
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