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On 11/01/2011 03:17, David Lee wrote: > Q) Why does XDM allow text() children of document nodes, and in fact > allow multiple element children of document nodes (If I read it right …) > > For example in XQuery this is allowed > > document { text { "text" } , <elem1/> , text { "text2" } , <elem2/> } > > I'm wondering what is the use-case that led to this ? > > My best "clue" is a recent question/response on xslt-list which made it > clear to me that <xsl:variable> produced a document node, but it could > contain parentless text nodes > > I certainly understand the desire for XDM to allow parentless text, > element, and attribute nodes … > > but I don’t understand the use case for document nodes containing text > and multiple element nodes … > > Am I correct in presuming this is to support XSLT 1.0 (and perhaps by > inference XQuery 1.0 ) which allowed this ? > Is it a chicken&egg problem ? > in both xslt 1 and 2 the common construct <xsl:variable name="x"> foo <bar/> baz </xsl:variable> creates a document node with three children, two text nodes and an element. However XDM supports this not just for xsl:variable, xslt/xquery are designed to produce not only xml documents but what the xml rec calls external parsed entities, and a document node that can take text or multiple element children is exactly what you want for an external parsed entity. > What is the rationale for allowing document nodes to contain children > which are not parseable from Text XML ? > > Is this a critical feature to maintain in a round-trip XDM serialization > specification ? ( Yes I realize I'm asking for an opinion not an > objective fact). > > Thanks for any advice, opinions, or historical anecdotes. > > -David > > David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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