RE: Proposal: Searching XML

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Matthew Dovey wrote:

> I think my view (and this was something we investigated in some of the
> precursor work for SRW) would be that specifying an XSLT as an e-spec
> would be a better proposal that just specifying a list of XPATHs. This
> would also have the advantage of have toolkits available for XSLT
> transforms that could plug in.

Isn't XSLT turing complete? queries could take a while to complete unless
there was some filtering put in place to subset things to sensible
XSLTs... (also we'd need to watch that extension functions weren't left
open).

Dan

Received on Monday, 22 April 2002 06:31:53 UTC