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On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Francis Norton wrote: > > > "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? External functions... > 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? External functions... -- <Matt/> Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org
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