RE: ACTION 614-12: Smart Quotes

> 
> We haven’t really discussed this, but I have been assuming this syntax will be
> XQuery and not XPath.

FWIW, I think it makes sense to make such a fundamental feature (quoted, interpolated strings) part of the XPath core language.

> 
> For XSLT I think the text value templates introduced in XSLT 3.0 meet the
> requirement, though we haven’t done anything to make it easier to
> generate content such as CSS with lots of curly braces.
> 

Indeed. We did discuss allowing a configurable opening/closing character, but we decided against that. If this new syntax makes it into XPath, it gives users another way to work around the curly issue.

Cheers,
Abel

Received on Wednesday, 16 September 2015 10:41:56 UTC