Johnathan Robie <jonathan.robie@softwareag.com> wrote: > At 05:10 PM 1/21/2002 -0500, Mike Schilling wrote: > >>If keywords are required, a much better choice is to make them >>distinguishable from path elements, i.e. forbid them from matching the XML >>Name production. Requiring them to begin with a colon (like the proposed, >>unacceptable syntax for path element escaping) is one possibility. > > This is one of many designs that have been discussed. There are at least > some people who feel this would make XQuery more awkward to use. Also note > that this would introduce an incompatibility with XPath 1.0, which has no > such requirement. I'm not sure what you mean. XPath 1.0 has no keywords (as opposed to axis names, operator names, function names, etc.)Received on Tuesday, 22 January 2002 23:21:00 GMT
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