- From: 高军 <gaojun@rdb01.pku.edu.cn>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:30:7 +0800
- To: www-xpath-comments@w3.org <www-xpath-comments@w3.org>
Dear all: I have one question on XPath specification. In Xpath, the operater * denotes the wildcards of XML and // denotes the ansester- descendent relationship of XML element. So I wonder why XPath could not support the zero or any repeat of sub xpath, such as /(a/b)*/c, which means we can pass /(a/b)/c or /a/b/a/b/c ... in XML data document. I know such expression could be replaced by //a/b/c, but the former expression seems be evaluated efficiently. I know such expression can not supported in the current version of XPath. I only want to know why such an important feature can not support in XPath, and whether it maybe supported in the future version. Best regards Thanks Josh
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