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RE: Where is the benefit ? (Was : RE: The hard cocktail of sequence and (node-)set ..)
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 18:32:51 -0000
- Subject: RE: Where is the benefit ? (Was : RE: [xsl] The hard cocktail of sequence and (node-)set ..)
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> Anyone care to try and pinpoint what is going to make
> XPath2.0 better rather than just different?
>
To add to the points made by Jeni, I think that the availability of
sequences-of-strings and sequences-of-numbers is going to give substantial
benefits when writing the more complex stylesheets: they are much more
flexible and efficient than using trees as the only data structuring
mechanism for working data.
Mike Kay
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