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Re: XPath 1.5? (was RE: typing and markup)

• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: Re: XPath 1.5? (was RE: typing and markup)
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 22:20:04 +0200
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Jonathan Robie wrote:
> At 06:27 PM 5/7/2002 +0200, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> 
>>Are we speaking of XPath (as the title says), XQuery or both?
>>The issue I see with XPath 2.0 is that it's replacing XPath 1.0 which is 
>>now "legacy" and that up to now I don't see the benefit which could 
>>compensate the cost of a migration...
> 
> 
> I expect that XPath 1.0 will continue to exist for a good long time.

Yes, that's what I meant. OTH, to keep it alive and eventually in sync 
with other developments there might be *slight* mofifications to bring.

> 
> One might ask whether we need XQuery, XPath 1.0, *and* XQuery 2.0. One 
> reasonable position would be to drop XQuery 2.0. But the XSLT folks say 
> their users really want this additional functionality.

I try to avoid speaking of what I don't know and I no idea on the topic 
except that I don't see the value for my day to day work (but I do not 
pretend to be representative either).

> I don't see how adding an XPath 1.5 helps here, I think it just adds to 
> fragmentation of XPath.

I am not convinced that we need a XPath 1.5 right now, we just need to 
make sure we can keep XPath and XSLT 1.0 alive. It may well be just more 
EXSLT or a XPath 1.01 in 1 year but stating that XPath 1.0 won't change 
is a way to kill it.

It doesn't have to come from the W3C either. EXSLT is (yet another) 
example of successfull initiative which complement the work from the W3C.

Eric

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