• To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...>
• Subject: Re: Annotations in XPath-NG? (Re: XPath/XSLT 2.0 concerns)
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 01:14:33 -0600
• Cc: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...> of "Sun, 06 Oct 2002 18:16:39 BST." <81871823946.20021006181639@j...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> Personally I'd use qualified names rather than URIs for the "lookup",
> but that's because I envisage getting to annotation information
> through an axis rather than through a function and because QNames are
> easier to write than URIs. Perhaps a function:
> 
>   annotations(node)
> 
> that returns a node set, and let the user use XPath mechanisms for
> doing the lookup within that node set?

This is fine in general, but I wonder what structure the node set would have.

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