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RE: Transitive closure for XPath
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Transitive closure for XPath
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 18:06:34 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> something I really lose sleep over is the lack of a transitive closure
> function in XPath.
>
> Also, is anyone from the XPath WG reading this ?
>
Yes, they are, but they won't treat it as a request unless you send it to
xsl-editors@w3.org.
Even then, my suspicion is that it will drop below the line. (Does SQL have
a transitive closure function yet?)
XQuery allows user-defined functions, which can of course be recursive, so
I'd guess that you are more likely to see a solution along those lines.
Mike Kay
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