• To: "'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@m...>,"'Mike Champion'" <mc@x...>
• Subject: RE: XPath/XSLT 2.0 concerns
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:06:32 +0100
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <8BD7226E07DDFF49AF5EF4030ACE0B7E0696FA4D@r...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> Too true, I'm sure many others can't wait to write template 
> matches like
> 
> 
> <xsl:template match="ipo:shipTo[. instance of element of type 
> ipo:USAddress]/ipo:state[. instance of element of type 
> ipo:USState]" />
> 
> instead of 
> 
> <xsl:template match="ipo:shipTo/ipo:state" />
> 
> because of the gains of schema aware processing

Sure, the current syntax is awful, but I'm pushing for things like

  match="~ipo:USAddress/~ipo:USState"

Michael Kay
Software AG
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