• From: "Erik James Freed" <ejfreed@i...>
• To: "Eric Bohlman" <ebohlman@n...>, "Pavel Velikhov" <pvelikho@c...>
• Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 12:53:35 -0800

Then that query language would be making assumptions about the
semantic equivalence of attributes and elements with the 
same name. This seems wrong. I think the problem is harder than
you present it.

erik

> But that's merely a design decision on the part of the designers of the
> two query languages, *not* an inherent limitation.  It would be perfectly
> possible to design and implement a query language that treated an
> element's attributes the same as text-only child elements of that
> attribute.
> 

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