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> > With XQuery though, there's almost nothing in there that hasn't > > been added to XSLT and/or XPATH (except perhaps the syntax, which > > is rather more pleasant IMHO). > > I'm sure some XQuery expert would be glad to > exlain us why XQuery is very much different from > XPath ... I remember XSL FO experts explaining > why FOs are very much different from CSS ... Differences between XPath and XQuery: - Static typing in XQuery, not in XPath - Construction in XQuery, not in XPath - Sorting and grouping in XQuery, not in XPath - Function definition in XQuery (including recursive functions) - XQuery may not provide all XPath axes (implementation issue) Differences between XQuery and XSLT: - XSLT currently operates on tree fragments, XQuery on sequences of nodes and values - XSLT has a data driven processing architecture, XQuery has a declarative processing architecture Best regards Michael
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