- From: Michael Rys <mrys@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:05:13 -0700
- To: "Ellis Cohen" <e.cohen@acm.org>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
$aStuff/*[local-name()=$parts]
Michael
> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-qt-comments-request@w3.org [mailto:public-qt-comments-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ellis Cohen
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:55 AM
> To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Subject: Query use case: dynamically subselecting a sequence of named
> elements
>
>
> Suppose the element Stuff were defined as
>
> <!ELEMENT Stuff (Thing1, Thing2, ...., Thing99)>
>
> If $aStuff identified a Stuff element node
> and $parts contained the sequence ('Thing24', 'Thing27', 'Thing82')
>
> one would be sorely tempted to write $aStuff/$parts
> to get the corresponding sub-elements of the Stuff node
>
> That wouldn't work, but how easy would it be write the necessary
> expression
> (preferably in XPath alone) given $aStuff and $parts?
>
>
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