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On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Kay Michael 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? > > > I suspect the absence of a "like" function in version 1.0 is because people > didn't want to put regular expression matching in unless they got it right, > which with full Unicode and full internationalisation is not actually easy. FWIW I believe that some of the latest Unicode documentation references Perl 5.6's regular expression extensions for Unicode (it might not be a direct reference though). Disclaimer: I've not read the Unicode docs in question. -- <Matt/> Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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