• To: "Keith W. Boone" <keith@w...>
• Subject: Re: Annotations in XPath-NG? (Re: XPath/XSLT 2.0 concerns)
• From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...>
• Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:58:49 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <LEEOLHFCOBHIBMPBAGGCOEPKELAA.keith@w...>
• Organization: Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd
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• Reply-to: Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...>

Hi Keith,

> Back to XPath-NG: The notion of XPath extensions that support nodes
> above the document [i.e., collection nodes and repository nodes]
> would be pretty useful. For example, we want to be able to create an
> XPath expression that searches a specified collection or document
> within a collection.

Right. XPath/XSLT 2.0 supports the concept of collections. Check out
xf:collection() at:

  http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators/#func-collection

Comments (as usual) to public-qt-comments@w....

Cheers,

Jeni

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