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Re: XPath 2.0 - how much of XQuery should it include?

• To: jeni@j...
• Subject: Re: XPath 2.0 - how much of XQuery should it include?
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:12:00 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jonathan.robie@d... (Jonathan Robie), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <261522396870.20020510004424@j...> from "Jeni Tennison" at May 10, 2002 12:44:24 AM

Jeni Tennison scripsit:

> XPath 2.0 incorporates a number of *statements* that are already
> provided by XSLT 2.0. The for "expression" and the if "expression"
> would be classed as statements in any other language. 

That turns out not to be the case.

There are many languages in which everything is
an expression returning a value, including conditionals and loops,
and even good ol' C has a conditional expression (with funky syntax,
but semantically the same as if-then-else).

"Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of
nothing."  (Alan Perlis)

-- 
John Cowan <jcowan@r...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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