- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 08:57:56 -0500
- To: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@tech-know-ware.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Pete Cordell writes: > Original Message From: <noah_mendelsohn@> > > > So, I don't think there's one answer that's clearly the right one for > > everyone: you can make good cases both for and against full XPath 2.0, > > limited subset, or some sort of variability. A related debate has to do > > with whether evaluation should be type-aware. > > I'm not so worried about a subset, as long as it's OK to plug a fully > featured implementation into an application. The WG hasn't yet issued a public working draft covering this area, but I think it's quite likely that the solution proposed will have the characteristics you are suggesting it should. > What I don't like is where a superset is defined, as found in schema regular > expressions with character class subtraction (even if it is a nice > feature!). > > Hopefully this can be avoided. I'm not aware of any plan to superset XPath 2.0 in conjunction with new features of Schema 1.1. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 -------------------------------------- "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@tech-know-ware.com> 02/07/2007 08:13 AM To: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com> cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org> Subject: Re: References to a value of an element in another element? Original Message From: <noah_mendelsohn@> > So, I don't think there's one answer that's clearly the right one for > everyone: you can make good cases both for and against full XPath 2.0, > limited subset, or some sort of variability. A related debate has to do > with whether evaluation should be type-aware. I'm not so worried about a subset, as long as it's OK to plug a fully featured implementation into an application. What I don't like is where a superset is defined, as found in schema regular expressions with character class subtraction (even if it is a nice feature!). Hopefully this can be avoided. Pete. -- ============================================= Pete Cordell Tech-Know-Ware Ltd for XML to C++ data binding visit http://www.tech-know-ware.com/lmx (or http://www.xml2cpp.com) =============================================
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