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

• To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XPath 1.5? (was RE: typing and markup)
• From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 18:51:27 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <1020790480.2161.2095.camel@l...>

 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...] 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 12:36, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> > So far, I really feel like we are discussing various people's 
> > philosophies
> > of XML. The requirements for XQuery were based on use 
> cases, not on philosophy.
> 
> Right, Jonathan.  Every use case (except maybe update) should 
> be considered critical and spared from possible trauma of any 
> possible philosophical or aesthetic objection. The committee 
> obviously has the best priorities for which cases matter. 
> Notions of what markup is actually good at should have 
> absolutely nothing to do with decisions about how to use markup.

Well hold on there, Johnathan's got a point. Does anyone on this
list have /examples/ or anti-use cases? The objection from
aesthetics is important, though not in my humble, but correct
opinion, compelling. Uses cases are the pictures that speak a
thousand words.

On the other hand, all the extra goodies, is it /necessary/ that
they be core to XPath2? Uche's suggestion of conformance (which I
take means comformant profiles), seems perfectly sensible.

The hardest part of XML has always been understanding what to throw
out. 

Bill de hÓra


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