- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 16:13:35 -0400
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, www-tag@w3.org
At 3:19 PM -0400 6/7/02, Norman Walsh wrote: >| What about the XSLT case? e.g. >| >| <xsl:apply-templates select = >| "child::Person/child::name:First[following-sibling::name:MI = 'M']" /> > >Given that XPath can't be "undone" at this point, there's no point >saying that the use of QNames in XPath is wrong. > Yes. >I think the finding needs to say something about XPath explicitly, but >I haven't figured out what yet. Suggestions most gratefully accepted. > It occurs to me that one type the W3C XML Schema Language does not have is xsd:xpath; i.e. a string which is a legal XPath expression. And I doubt that could be defined as a regular expression. I'm not sure what relevance that has here, except as one more example of the limitations of schema types. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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