Re: [xsl] Transitive closure for XPath

Subject: Re: [xsl] Transitive closure for XPath
From: "Christian Nentwich" <c.nentwich@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:00:02 +0100

>
> The concept you are looking for is "higher-order functions", available in
> many functional programming languages. The concept is consistent with the
> XPath conceptual model, but disagreeable to those who want the language to
> stop short of being a general purpose programming language.

Well, 'those people' have nothing to complain about, since introducing
higher order functions hardly makes XPath computationally complete or
general purpose ;)

Christian



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Re: [xsl] Transitive closure for XPath, (continued) Jeni Tennison - Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:50:17 +0100 Christian Nentwich - Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:05:41 +0100 Francis Norton - Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:25:08 +0100 Michael Kay - Mon, 23 Apr 2001 23:01:17 +0100 Christian Nentwich - Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:00:02 +0100 <= Francis Norton - Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:42:36 +0100

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