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RE: The evaluate function
- From: Joerg Pietschmann <joerg dot pietschmann at zkb dot ch>
- To: XSL List <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:13:47 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] The evaluate function
- Organization: ZKB
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"Bryan Rasmussen" <bry@itnisk.com> wrote:
> >> why there are XPath expressions used in XForms?
> I thought it was cause they used it for databinding?
I meant: Why did they choose XPath for this purpose and
not IDs or names?
IMO using XPath expressions for references has quite a
few drawbacks, for example it makes reordering the data
definitions harder.
Regards
J.Pietschmann
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