- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:20:45 -0400
- To: Ray Whitmer <ray@xmission.com>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
At 10:30 AM -0600 8/26/03, Ray Whitmer wrote: >To properly call the structure a sequence, it would be necessary to >have two different result structures, one for the convenience and one >for the sequence, such as > >XPath2Sequence > >and > >XPath2Value I would prefer to eliminate the one for convenience completely. I don't think it's all that convenient, and causes significant trouble when the sequence that is returned has more or less than one member. I think it's more convenient (and much cleaner) to simple say a sequence is always returned. Get what you want out of it. Making everything a sequence is a significant simplification and improvement in XPath 2.0 over XPath 1.0. I think we could take advantage of this in the API as well. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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