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RE: XPath 1.5? (was RE: typing and markup)

• To: "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@d...>,"David Carlisle" <davidc@n...>
• Subject: RE: XPath 1.5? (was RE: typing and markup)
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 12:44:17 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: XPath 1.5? (was RE: typing and markup)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Robie 
> [mailto:jonathan.robie@d...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:41 AM
> To: David Carlisle
> Cc: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  XPath 1.5? (was RE:  typing 
> and markup)
> 
> >In an Xpath/XSLT setting (if not XML Query) the support for schema 
> >complex types vastly complicates the specification for very small 
> >benefit and doesn't address any issue with Xpath/XSLT that has been 
> >raised on any XSLT forum that I've seen over the last couple 
> of years.
> 
> Here's one such issue: I want to write a query or a transform 
> whose output 
> is guaranteed to be XHTML. I don't want to validate my output 
> each time to 
> see if it succeeded.

I thought we went down this road before. This is IMPOSSIBLE to guarantee
without post-validation of the query results. Plus, I haven't seen
anything in any of the XQuery specs that indicates this is something
that XQuery can come remotely close to solving. 
 

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