- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:08:38 -0400
- To: Adam Retter <adam@exist-db.org>, Hans-Juergen Rennau <hrennau@yahoo.de>
- Cc: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>, EXPath ML <public-expath@w3.org>
On Sat, 2016-08-27 at 19:07 +0100, Adam Retter wrote: > I have always been somewhat wary of `eval` although I cannot deny > there are use cases for it. However, since higher-order-functions in > XQuery 3.0 I find that many (but not all) of the cases in the past > where I have seen eval used, could be replaced by function > composition; One of the most common remaining areas I've seen is where you want XPath expressions as first class objects -- e.g. you're implementing something like XSLT where there are XPath expressions embedded not in the query but in an input XML document. Translating the input document to a whole new query is sometimes a good alternative. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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