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Liam wrote: If you see XPath as a domain-specific language for pointing into XML documents, or into XDM trees, it's hard to see a lot of people wanting to pay for something if all it did was save them money, improve reliability, reduce costs and speed up development. That is a wonderful argument Liam. When I tell my operational people this and then tell them, "Oh, you want to distribute this capability to the xx thousands of people in the field. Okay, I'll implement it using XSLT/XPath and you'll have to buy a license for them and that will cost many yy thousands of dollars." They simply respond, "No, do not use XSLT/XPath. Implement the capability in Java and distribute it for free to the people in the field." Dimitre wrote: BaseX is free and as an XQuery 3.0 implementation it is also an XPath 3.0 implementation. Thanks for notifying me of this Dimitre. I took a look at it. It appears to be a database supporting XPath and XQuery queries. That won't help me build fieldable applications. Please correct me if I am wrong. Jim wrote: Who are the people you are trying to convince to use XSLT vnext ? .. it might be that these folks will never learn such a language as XSLT e.g. are the docheads ? datageeks ? Javascript folk ? Jim, they are non-techies. They don't care about XML or XSLT or XPath. They are people with real, operational needs. Particular technologies is of no interest to them. But telling them that by using XSLT/XPath they will have to purchase licenses costing many yy thousands of dollars -- that gets their attention. And immediate dismissal of XSLT/XPath. /Roger
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