- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:39:01 -0000
- To: <yzh02@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>, <www-xpath-comments@w3.org>
> hi w3c, > I am a software engineer, and I like xpath very march, > It(xpath) facilitate my > work very march. But I feeled very surprise why there are not > other operation in > xpath,such as update/remove/add which are used wide.I advise > you to introduce > other operation ,such as update/remove/add, to xpath, and > make xpath operateing > xml like SQL operateing relate table. > XQuery is a superset of XPath designed to fulfil the role of a database query language. W3C is working on an update facility for XQuery. You can read the requirements here: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-update-requirements-20050211/ In fact, design work is a lot more advanced than the requirements document might suggest, though update will not be included in XQuery 1.0. Michael Kay
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