RE: Where is the benefit ? (Was : RE: [xsl] The hard cocktail of sequence and (node-)set ..)

Subject: RE: Where is the benefit ? (Was : RE: [xsl] The hard cocktail of sequence and (node-)set ..)
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 18:32:51 -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.

Mike Kay


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