Re: Match Pattern Proposal

/ Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> was heard to say:
| For a number of reasons--including support of streaming processors and
| consistency between viewports and other constructs--I believe we should
| restrict XPaths to match patterns for everything but parameters.  As
| such, here is what I think is a cohesive proposal:

I'm not convinced.

When I write a select expression on input, for-each, or viewport, I'm
thinking "Ok, I've got this document in my hand, what nodes do I want
to select out of it." I think it is more natural to write a select
expression than a match pattern.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh
XML Standards Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.