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Re: xpath vs xql

• From: Matt Sergeant <matt@s...>
• To: Huaxin Zhang <hxzhang@c...>
• Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:28:39 +0100 (BST)

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Huaxin Zhang wrote:

> Somebody says XPATH provide a better functionality than xql.
> I am not sure about this. But lack of functions such as "like"
> to compare strings, and nested condition (i.e. a [] inside a [])
> makes it difficult to select some specified nodes with XPATH. One can make
> extensions to XSLTs to overcome some of them (such as string A like string
> B), but not always. Why don't the XPATH, allow using of nested conditions?

It does everything you need, you're just thinking in the XQL box, rather
than in the XPath box - try a good resource for learning XPath, like
Michael Kay's XSLT book.

For "like", you can use contains(). For nested conditions either use more
than one predicate: foo[...][...] or use proper nesting, but a predicate
always has to come after a node test, so if you need to you can use the
"." node test.

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