Re: ACTION 614-12: Smart Quotes

On 16 September 2015 at 12:41, Abel Braaksma wrote:

>> We haven’t really discussed this, but I have been assuming this syntax will be
>> XQuery and not XPath.

> FWIW, I think it makes sense to make such a fundamental feature (quoted,
> interpolated strings) part of the XPath core language.

I would have assumed it to be XQuery-only as well.  This is about
constructing text nodes, and XPath does not have node constructors
(literal elements for instance).  This is rather done in XQuery (or
XSLT, but XSLT already has such a mechanism).

Regards,

-- 
Florent Georges
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Received on Sunday, 20 September 2015 18:38:40 UTC