RE: general path expressions and XQuery

Thank you for the information. At this point I would like to point out that
in my opinion the lack of general path expression support as well as the
lack of wildcards on element and attribute matching are two important
disadvantages of XQuery.

Dimitris Karteris


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Rys [mailto:mrys@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:10 PM
> To: Dimitris Karteris; www-ql@w3.org
> Subject: RE: general path expressions and XQuery
>
>
> Since XQuery is using XPath as its path expression language, the answer
> is no. While some of the GPE's capabilities can be modeled with the
> alternation (|) (mainly | and ?) the * cannot be fully expressed in
> XPath 2.0 (some can be expressed with some of the axes or functions).
>
> Best regards
> Michael
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dimitris Karteris [mailto:dkart@otenet.gr]
> > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:30 AM
> > To: www-ql@w3.org
> > Subject: general path expressions and XQuery
> >
> > does XQuery support or plan to support the general path expressions
> > supported by Lorel?
>
>

Received on Friday, 4 January 2002 15:31:49 UTC