• To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>,xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: xPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0 ... size increase over v1.0
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:54:23 -0400
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At 07:22 PM 6/10/2003 +0200, Eric van der Vlist wrote:

>IMO, complexity is not the main point here. What's happening with XPath
>2.0 is that you're changing the nature of the language, like if you said
>for Java: "the next version will not be interpreted but compiled" or
>"the next version will be dynamically typed" or maybe more to the point
>"you will have to provide a UML model before you can define a class in
>the next version".

OK, I'll bite.

Why would anyone need to use anything analogous to a UML model to use XPath 
2.0?

Jonathan 

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