- From: Alessandro Vernet <avernet@orbeon.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:27:20 -0700
- To: public-xml-processing-model-wg <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
On 5/12/06, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> wrote: > I'm afraid that I've grown so used to having XPath 2.0 that I would be > loath to be without it. It's not the schema-awareness or the type > checking, it's the support for conditionals, regular expressions etc. > > For example, I was thinking about how to set a parameter to hold a > space-separated sequence of URIs where those URIs come from an arbitrary > number of attributes in a document. In XPath 2.0, you can use the > string-join() function, but there's no way of doing it in XPath 1.0. > > I think we could get away with the same subset of XPath 2.0 > functionality as is used in Basic XSLT 2.0, namely: > > - no support for user-defined types (i.e. no importing of schemas) > - all element and attribute nodes are untyped > - only a subset of the XML Schema datatypes are supported > > We would avoid all the schema import problems, but still give users the > XPath 2.0 functionality that they will find useful. +1 Jeni, I couldn't agree more with what you are saying here. Alex -- Blog (XML, Web apps, Open Source): http://www.orbeon.com/blog/
Received on Thursday, 18 May 2006 02:27:41 UTC