- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 17:06:27 +0200
- To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Cc: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
Hullo,
On May 12, 2006, at 16:40, Jeni Tennison wrote:
> I'm afraid that I've grown so used to having XPath 2.0 that I would
> be loath to be without it. It's not the schema-awareness or the
> type checking, it's the support for conditionals, regular
> expressions etc.
Much agreed, it would be a shame if the schema-related issues became
a reason for the very useful other pieces of functionality to not be
available.
> I think we could get away with the same subset of XPath 2.0
> functionality as is used in Basic XSLT 2.0, namely:
>
> - no support for user-defined types (i.e. no importing of schemas)
> - all element and attribute nodes are untyped
> - only a subset of the XML Schema datatypes are supported
>
> We would avoid all the schema import problems, but still give users
> the XPath 2.0 functionality that they will find useful.
That would be very nice indeed.
--
Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
Received on Friday, 12 May 2006 15:06:19 UTC