• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:43:14 +0000

On 21/03/2011 11:22, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Does it indicate an inherent limitation in the expressability of XML markup?

No.

a) the first drafts of what became xpath did use xml markup
b) there is a standardised xml markup for all of xquery (which includes 
xpath)

It's not a limitation of XML, it's a limitation of humans.

c) ? Why do we resort to non-XML syntax?

Try writing a few xpressions using XqueryX by hand and you'll soon see:-)

David

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