RE: XQueryX

> To whom it may concern,
> 
>   I am studying XQueryX and I have come up with an issue that does not
> seem to be addressed on the w3.org website for the XQueryX
> specification.  It has to do with ordering stepExpr tags so that they
> are not sibling nodes.  The problem I see with having sibling nodes is
> that they are supposed to represent a parent-child relationship in the
> XPath of Xquery.  If a parser does not take document linearity into
> account, then the step expressions, because they are sibling nodes,
> may become jumbled and lose their order when trying to recreate an
> XPath.  Though most parsers do take document linearity into
> considerations when parsing an XML document, sibling node order is not
> a specification that is outlined in the XML specification.  If I am
> missing something please let me know.  Perhaps you are already working
> on this issue?  Thanks for your time and your consideration.
> Josemaria L. Dolores

Received on Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:07:02 UTC