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Re: xpath vs xql

• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:29:13 -0500

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, 

Is there a formal definition for "like" that works for all languages?

> 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?

Nested conditions are allowed in XPath. Why do you believe otherwise?
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The calculus and the rich body of mathematical analysis to which it 
gave rise made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that 
made the modern world possible.
	- The Advent of the Algorithm (pending), by David Berlinski

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