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"John F. Schlesinger" wrote: > ... > Using XPath for LDAP databases is a great idea. We could even replace > Segment Search Arguments for accessing IMS databases! The UNIX and Windows > file systems could be accessed using XPath which would make scripts much > easier to write (or, indeed, read). XPath could be added to tree controls > for user interface coding. Neat. > Let me play devil's advocate here. How would you get past the difficulty that Xpath (unlike XML-Schema) doesn't understand basic types like dates, which could be a fairly important search attribute for queries? Also wouldn't you want to wait until or unless XPath acquires regular expressions (treat the content of a file as mixed text content?) for doing text searches? Francis. -- Francis Norton. Defy Convention? Deify Convention!
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