- From: Philip Wadler <wadler@research.avayalabs.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 12:53:30 -0500
- To: "Dimitris Karteris" <dkart@otenet.gr>
- cc: "Michael Rys" <mrys@microsoft.com>, <www-ql@w3.org>
> Thank you for the information. At this point I would like to point out that
> in my opinion the lack of general path expression support as well as the
> lack of wildcards on element and attribute matching are two important
> disadvantages of XQuery.
(1) Do you have examples where you need general path expressions and
ancestor, descendant are not sufficient?
(2) What do you mean "lack of wildcards on element and attribute matching"?
Why don't * and @* in XPath satisfy this requirement?
-- P
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