RE: XPath (and other W3C drafts)

> Is there somewhere a discussion of what is new and different 
> in XPath 2.1?
> 

Not really. But it's primarily:

* let expressions (let $x := expr return expr)

* first-class functions

* expanded-QName notation for QNames ("uri":local) - although decided, this
doesn't seem to have made it into this draft

* new functions in the function library

Regards,

Michael Kay
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