I'll cross-post this to smoothly move to the XAPI Developer list.
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 11:35:34 -0800 Ronald Bourret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know. I can easily see wanting to perform a query that just > > simple extracts all text from a document. Say you have Hamlet as XML, > > and you want to get all of the text for ACT II, SCENE 1, but none of the > > markup. A set of Text nodes should be just as valid in processing as a > > set of Elements. This is especially useful for transformation. > > Sounds good to me. It looks, then, like there might be five different > possible return values: > > whole document (as DOM, SAX, or text) > node set > forest We should distinguish between "return values" and "return types". Return value: whole document, node set, forest Return type: DOM, SAX, test, binary? But the return type is not the most important point, because it is "wrapped" through an abstract resource interface. > Which ones are actually used would depend on the service. For example, > XPath returns node sets, while XQuery (I think) only returns whole > documents. Lars -- ______________________________________________________________________ Lars Martin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SMB GmbH http://www.smb-tec.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact adminstrator: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Read archived messages: http://archive.xmldb.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
