• To: "'K. Ari Krupnikov'" <ari@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Question for updating existing XML file
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:56:03 +0100
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> 
> > Another proposal that has been made is to allow 
> user-defined axes. I quite
> > like that idea, but there seem to be others who hate it.
> 
> Hm. This sounds interesting. I remember Henry Thompson spoke about
> this, too. How would the user axes be implemented, as an alias to a
> user-defined function?
> 

Yes, I see it simply as syntactic sugar for invoking a function with the
signature f(node()) -> node()*.

Michael Kay

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