Re: [xsl] XQuery Updates in XSLT

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

> delete node doc("test.html")/*:html/*:body/*:p[1]

Such change is irreversible. Difficult and dangerous even to test.

As one that has had some experience in erring, I would never use such
"wonderful" feature.

A general, good design principle: Dangerous operations should be made
difficult to trigger/perform.




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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Jesper Tverskov <jesper@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> By the way, this is all the XQuery Updates needed to delete the first
> paragraph of an XHTML document:
>
> delete node doc("test.html")/*:html/*:body/*:p[1]
>
> Period.
>
> The problem with the wonderful modified identity template is that it
> is more like an army even when one policeman would do.
>
> XSLT has a problem if it is only good at total war.
>
> Jesper