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RE: The Perils of Sudden Type-Safety in XPath 2.0

2003-02-18 11:26:42
[ Gunther Schadow ]

Please, please, can't this decision for XPath not turned 
around? Could strong typing not be made optional? Why should 
one go through the hassle of adding explicit type conversions 
if they do nothing else than making the hitherto conveniently 
implicit conversions explicit. What's the point of this?


It apparently is optional in this sense: if you do not supply a schema
for the xml source file, then the processor will have no types to assign
(except anyType).  Then everything will be more or less as before.

Now if you have a schema specified but you do not want the xslt
processor to pay attention to it, you will probably be out of luck, as
best I can tell from recent posts on this.

Cheers,

Tom P

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