• To: AndrewWatt2000@a...,xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: The vision for XPath 2.0
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:25:34 -0700
• In-reply-to: <14c.db1abbc.2a0d3930@a...>

At 10:54 AM 5/10/2002 -0400, AndrewWatt2000@a... wrote:

>What was the vision for XPath 2.0? It would be good to be informed that there
>is a clear, practical and relevant vision for XPath 2.0.

The requirements document for XPath 2.0 is here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20req

It's been out for over a year. I don't think it has really received all 
that much feedback. I gather these are features that at least some XPath 
users have asked for.

I think there is a clear vision behind XPath 1.0 and a clear vision for 
XQuery. Then the obvious question is this: which things in XQuery are 
useful in XPath? Answering that question is the vision behind XPath 2.0. 
Concrete feedback on how we are doing is always appreciated - which 
features do you want, and why?

In practice, I think most people are thinking of XPath 2.0 as the part of 
XQuery that gets used in XSLT.

Jonathan

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