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Re: Re: Hello XQuery ... Goodbye XSLT?

• To: "Kirkham, Pete (UK)" <pete.kirkham@b...>
• Subject: Re: Re: Hello XQuery ... Goodbye XSLT?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:00:15 -0500
• Cc: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@y...>, xml-dev@l...
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Dimitre Novatchev

> To avoid recursion in tree processing (isn't this what XSLT
> and XQuery are all about)? This should be impossible by definition.

I think you are confusing recursive data structures, which both 
languages must be able to handle, with recursive algorithms.

We could force programmers to use a recursive algorithm instead of 
writing a path expression like this:

	//table

Why would we want to?

Jonathan

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