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

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• Subject: Re: XPath 1.5? (was RE: typing and markup)
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 18:27:41 +0200
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Hi Jonathan

Jonathan Robie wrote:

> One of the reasons that I would like to bring this discussion to the level 
> of real queries on real data is that I am not sure that everyone involved 
> in the discussion actually knows how XQuery works.
> 
> Please, can we see some queries that cause problems, or things that are 
> hard to say or do in XQuery?

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...

Eric
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