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• Subject: Re: XPath 2.0 - how much of XQuery should it include?
• From: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 05:43:47 +0000
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In <00c501c1f8aa$8fd5b240$4bc8a8c0@A...>, "Rick Jelliffe"
<ricko@a...> wrote:
|  From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
 
|> This change was made because database systems need to use indexes to
|> evaluate boolean expressions. 
| 
| Why is it a requirement that XPath2 pander to DBMS-specific functions?

AFAICT, it isn't a requirement.  It's a teleological imperative.  That's
what "we need data types" has always been about.

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