- From: Michael Kay <mhkay@iclway.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:58:17 +0100
- To: "'Christian Nentwich'" <c.nentwich@cs.ucl.ac.uk>, <xsl-editors@w3.org>
> 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 think there's an underlying, more fundamental requirement here, namely a requirement for higher-order functions in XPath. If functions can be supplied as arguments to a function call or returned as results of a function call, then it's reasonable to define a function that takes a function as its input and returns its transitive closure as its result; without that, it seems very difficult. Mike Kay
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