Hi, Marcel Reutegger wrote: > that would work for a plain xpath query. but what about queries that > have an order by clause? I'd expect something that allows me to limit > the resultset after ordering.
Ah! I suppose you are right in this use case only being covered by a proprietary extension. I don't see XPath supporting this anytime soon (*), so perhaps JSR-283 could specify a limit/offset notation to extend the order by notation specified in JSR-170. (*) Full XPath 2.0 would actually be able to do this, but the hack is both ugly and very slow. See http://www.ximeco.org/Xime/XPathCanSortHlousek.pdf for the gory details. :-) PS. I'll still make a Jira issue for the enhanced position() function. It might come in handly every now and then. BR, Jukka Zitting
