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* Vladimir Gapeyev <vgapeyev@s...> [2005-01-19 10:38]:
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> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Alan Gutierrez wrote: <excerpts>
>
> > XPath notion is a path language. It expresses paths in a
> > document. I'd like to have a stream langauge.
> >
> > Then you need something to indicate the order in the stream, I
> > suggest using the comma.
> > /a/b(foo, bar, baz)/c
> > /a(b/foo, b)/c
> >
> > Then you can have proper pattern matching operators.
> > /a(b/foo+, b*)/c
> >
> > Coming back to capturing.
> > /a(<b>, c = $1)
>
> The above examples with ordering and regular expression operators suggest
> you could consider basing XPattern on patterns derived from RelaxNG-like
> types rather than from XPath-like paths. If so, there is some prior work
> that could be of use:
> http://xduce.sourceforge.net/
>
> XDuce didn't explicitly pursue support for streamed processing, but some
> ideas might still be useful. The paper [2] (in ACM Transactions) on
> http://xduce.sourceforge.net/papers.html contains the most readable
> introduction.
With a new file upload in December, 27th, 2004, it looks as
though the project is still active. What is the status?
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Alan Gutierrez - alan@e...
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