Subject: RE: Where is the benefit ? (Was : RE: [xsl] The hard cocktail of sequence and (node-)set ..) From: "Kevin Jones" <kjouk@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:58:35 -0000 |
> > Anyone care to try and pinpoint what is going to make > > XPath2.0 better rather than just different? > > > To add to the points made by Jeni, I think that the availability of > sequences-of-strings and sequences-of-numbers is going to give substantial > benefits when writing the more complex stylesheets: they are much more > flexible and efficient than using trees as the only data structuring > mechanism for working data. > Thanks for your thoughts, Jeni & Mike. I was also kind of curious why sequences are not allowed to contain other sequences? If a mixed data type sequence is more flexible than a Nodeset then it would suggest a sequence that can contain sequences would be more so. I think there is some evidence as to how useful that might be in languages like Prolog. Although, to really exploit it you might also need to be able to pattern match against a sequence, fairly scary? Thanks, Kev. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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