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Subject: RE: UPDATE: Building XML from XPATHS in XSLT 2.0
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:54:34 +0100
> I am still wondering whether full XPATH tokenisation will be 
> possible in XSLT 2.0?

The language is computationally complete, so anything is possible, but
you're going to have to be a bit more clever than tokenizing with "/" as a
separator: that fails immediately with a path expression such as
/a/b[c='/']/d. Parsing XPath correctly is a non-trivial exercise.

Michael Kay 

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