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Re: [xsl] How would you like a new axis? time::

2010-03-14 05:39:05
On 14/03/10 10:33, Justin Johansson wrote:
Dave Pawson wrote:
Suggestion from Oracle (Dana Florescu) presentation at #xmlprague.

Idea being to ask for a specific version or nodeset existant
at a specific time in the past!


Great idea, though I propose it be a forward axis!


http://www.dbis.ethz.ch/research/publications/timemachinexml.pdf

we also introduce the following axes: rst::,
earlier::, past::, past-or-current::, current::, later::, future::,
future-or-current::, last::, all-times:: and local::. For exam-
ple, later::* navigates to the next version of the node time-
line to which the current node belongs or the empty sequence
if it does not exist.


Which is all relative to a node which has a position on
the timeline, which may be in the past, to give you a 'forward'/future axis!

Some neat ideas.



regards

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