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Transitive closure for XPath
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- Subject: [xsl] Transitive closure for XPath
- From: Christian Nentwich <c dot nentwich at cs dot ucl dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:58:04 +0100
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- Organization: University College London
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Dear all,
something I really lose sleep over is the lack of a transitive closure
function in XPath. I use XPath standalone, outside XSLT and I need such
an operator (to compute the set of all parent classes of a class in XMI,
for example).
Would you please comment on a little proposal I have written - includes
an implementation of the operator for Xalan as a freebie:
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/c.nentwich/closure/
Just imagine what this operator could do for *your* family tree XSLT
stylesheet. Am I the only one who finds this (extremely) useful ? Please
comment.
Also, is anyone from the XPath WG reading this ?
Thanks,
Christian
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Christian Nentwich
Dept. of Computer Science, University College London
+44 (0)20 7679 7190 - http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/c.nentwich
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