On 16/07/2021 11:18, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> Does anyone have a pointer to code (XSLT or any C-alike) which takes
> an XPath (3.n would be great) and gives you the type signature of
> what it will return?
>
> e.g.   //nook//cranny  will  return  'element('cranny')'  in whatever
>  notation or form.
>
> I am really only concerned with Xpath node types and their names if
> any, not XSD datatypes.

You could start with one of the XPath grammars for the REx Parser
Generator [1], generate a parser in your target language of choice, then
do whatever you want with the representation that the parser generates.

Regards,


Tony Graham.
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Senior Architect
XML Division
Antenna House, Inc.
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Skerries, Ireland
tgraham@a...


[1] https://www.bottlecaps.de/rex/

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