• To: <bry@i...>,"'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@m...>
• Subject: RE: Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working Drafts
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 17:22:20 +0100
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <200305092116134.SM01744@Debug>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> I 
> have an antipathy to xpath having 
> conditional and for expressions, as I 
> personally thought that should be part of 
> the individual programming language 
> environment calling xpath rather than xpath 
> itself

You're obviously one of those people who enjoys writing esoteric things
like:

<xsl:sort select="debit[$condition] | credit[not($condition)]"/>

Michael Kay

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