RE: XPath is NOT a functional language

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Subject: RE: XPath is NOT a functional language
From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:48:15 -0500

At 9:08 AM -0700 3/30/04, M. David Peterson wrote:

I don't know of any other technology that is using XPath at the core of
its functionality.  Therefore I don't know if this argument is true for
every instance of XPath implementation.  Anyone know of another
implementation that would not be considered a functional language?

Absolutely. Consider Jaxen or any of the other XPath APIs to non-functional languages. Or consider XSLT + the non-functional extensions some vendors provide. There's nothing in XPath that requires it to be implemented only in a functional language. --

  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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