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Re: What niche is XQuery targeting?

• To: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>
• Subject: Re: What niche is XQuery targeting?
• From: Robert Koberg <rob@k...>
• Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:05:44 -0800
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Michael Champion wrote:

> XSLT will presumably continue to do well for
> situations in which you are working within a single hierarchy, but
> XQuery may open up new possibilities that were difficult to treat with
> XML when there is not a single hierarchy.
> 

<xsl:variable
   name="other-tree"
   select="document('other-tree.xml')/*"/>

<xsl:apply-templates select="$other-tree"/>

makes it pretty simple to work on other hierarchies. Right? Maybe not, 
because switching context nodes confuses some users, but once it is 
understood it is not that bad.

Now you might be saying that is limited to what is in the file, but it 
is not so. You can use a custom URIResolver (java) to catch the href and 
  return whatever you need. (among other things I return lucene search 
results this way).

best,
-Rob

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