Re: Abandoning my p:filter idea

FWIW I think the problem p:filter was addressing is an important one
... but yes there is overlap with @select attribute and it was unclear
to me if the proposal addressed an 80% type use case.

I wonder if there anything we could do to reduce complexity within the
@select itself ?

J

On 9 April 2015 at 20:30, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> In the course of investigating the consequences of our decisions at
> the 1 Apr 2015 telcon wrt the p:filter element, I've come to the
> conclusion that we don't need it.
>
> The places where you could do a filter operation already have a select
> attribute. You can use that to do both. You might, perhaps, have to
> write a fairly hairy select expression but so be it.
>
> We can revisit if we encounter common cases where it's a problem.
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
> --
> Norman Walsh
> Lead Engineer
> MarkLogic Corporation
> Phone: +1 512 761 6676
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Received on Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:38:50 UTC