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Re: xml syntax for xpath

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• Subject: Re: xml syntax for xpath
• From: Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder@y...>
• Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:03:56 -0700 (PDT)
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--- bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@g...> wrote:

> Hi, there have been various xml based syntaxes for
> Xpath over the
> year. Anyone have some pointers to these, I am
> basically hoping to
> store extremely complicated/long xpath expressions
> and don't see a
> reason to roll my own (other than IIRC the xml based
> syntaxes were not
> pretty).

... but wont XML-defined representations be, almost by
definition, even longer and more complicated? ;-D

*duck*

But seriously, are you planning to query these paths
using xquery; for storage it'd seem that xpath syntax
itself, stored as text (within xml or whatever) would
not be that bad a storage choice?

-+ Tatu +-


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