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> >3) updating XSLT including XPath 2.0 as the XML syntax 'version' of XQuery, > >that is to say any features of XQuery not included in XPath 2.0 should be > >included in XSLT 2.0 (well it already has element constructors etc). Is this > >feasable? > > Possibly. But some of this is hard. XSLT tends to construct things top > down, and XQuery constructs things bottom up, for reasons that make perfect > sense in each language, which means the element constructors are different. I don't understand this argument at all. I don't see any fundamental semantic differences between element construction in XSLT and element construction in XQuery. If there was the political will, I believe XSLT and XQuery element construction could be unified. Some time ago, before I dropped out of W3C activities, I wrote a short paper on this. See: http://www.jclark.com/xml/construct.html Note that this was written relative to an older XQuery draft than the current one. > Updates don't work well in XSLT since it clearly separates the input tree > from the output tree. And XQuery doesn't? James
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