- From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:49:27 +0200
- To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
We believe that it should be made clear that an XQuery processor is permitted to support any of the axes specified in XPath, including those that are not defined in XQuery. We have come to the conclusion that some of the excluded axes - certainly the ancestor axis, and perhaps also the sibling axes - need to be provided for usability reasons. We do not provide them in our current product and users sometimes have difficulty finding a circumvention. In fact the current specification does not actually say that implementations are not allowed to provide extensions of this nature, but this appears to be the general intent, since an extensibility mechanism is defined in section 2.6.4. Michael Kay Software AG
Received on Tuesday, 10 June 2003 11:49:45 UTC