left and right axes

Michael Kay suggested I feel free to post a comment I made elsewhere here,
so I'll do so:

> The absence of preceding and 
> following sibling axes strikes me as rather odd, if for no 
> other reason than the fact that xquery is being developed 
> side by side with xpath 2.0 (and thus, I'd assume that it 
> would fully implement xpath functionality).

I realize that there is a workaround, but doesn't the very existence of a
workaround necessiate at least serious consideration of implementing this
functionality?

Thanks,

Rick Schochler

Received on Thursday, 10 July 2003 10:38:27 UTC