- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 21:20:11 +0100
- To: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
- CC: evan@evanlenz.net, public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Yes. The strongest use case for adding LET is that it would allow you to > bind to the context node at each level of predicate nesting: > > chapter[let $c := @id return section [starts-with(@id,$c)]] 'course if you don't provide let then we'll end up telling people to abuse for instead... chapter[for $c in @id return section [starts-with(@id,$c)]] let reads better but is only extra functionality if you want to bind to a sequence of more than one item. I suspect that extra functionality will be needed if (as in the current draft) sequence manipulation is an XPath rather than XSLT operation. David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
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