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Jonathan Robie wrote: > At 08:07 PM 6/10/2003 +0200, Eric van der Vlist wrote: > > >>You need to provide a model of your documents written with WXS not only to >>take advantage of the new features of XPath 2.0 but also to get it working >>with for some fairly basic features. > > > Which operations are you thinking of? It is certainly a goal of XPath 2.0 > (and XQuery, for that matter) to work gracefully for documents governed by > DTDs or merely well formed documents. Some examples showing areas where you > think there are problems would be useful. > > In XPath 2.0, I can certainly do things like multiply two untyped elements > - they will be cast implicitly to double before the multiplication, which > is what XPath 1.0 did. No schema needed. Your message seems to imply that > this is the kind of thing you are concerned about, but I am not sure. My judgement is heavily based on Jeni Tennison's talk at XML Europe 2003 [1]. She could elaborate better than me and said for instance: * "Easy to get errors from a stylesheet unless you're rigorous in keeping track of types" * "Using schemas/types well will make things easier; not using them will make things harder" Eric [1] http://www.jenitennison.com/xmleurope/WhatsNewInXSLT2.0.ppt -- Tired to type XML tags? http://wikiml.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Schema languages tutorial (registration open): - July 7th (Portland, OR) http://makeashorterlink.com/?K27A527A4 - August 4th (Montreal, Canada) http://makeashorterlink.com/?U28A217A4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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