Transitive closure for XPath

Dear all,

I would like to forward to you the URL of a proposal for a transitive
closure operator for XPath.

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/c.nentwich/closure/index.html

I work in the area of consistency checking, where checking of transitive
properties occurs naturally (e.g. "all - transitive - parents of node n must
have property x"). Unfortunately, xpath has no facilities to compute
transitive closure, which is why I have had to write proprietary code in the
past.

Since parent-child relationships arise naturally in many situations and such
an operator is relatively easily implemented (in non-optimising engines at
least),
I would like to ask you to consider the inclusion of such a facility in a
future
version of XPath.

Thank you,
Christian Nentwich

Received on Friday, 20 April 2001 02:16:59 UTC