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Re: Transitive closure for XPath
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Transitive closure for XPath
- From: "Christian Nentwich" <c dot nentwich at cs dot ucl dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:21:31 +0100
- Organization: University College London
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> 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.
That's not something I'm particularly looking forward to. XPath expressions
are short, concise and can be selected by a lightweight process. You will
probably have your own opinion on how XQuery compares to those
requirements...
Also, a path fits in one string. I've e-mailed xsl-editors@w3.org, might as
well try :)
Christian
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