I wouldn't wish XQueryX on anyone, but it seemed to be exactly what you were
looking for. I'm now confused about your requirements.
Michael Kay
# -----Original Message-----
# From: Hunsberger, Peter [mailto:]
# Sent: 18 March 2004 15:21
# To: Michael Kay;
# Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Cross document validation with
# Schematron - XML syntax for Xpath?
#
# Michael Kay <> writes:
#
# >
# > There is a proposed fine-grained XML syntax for XQuery
# called XQueryX
# > at
# >
# > http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xqueryx-20031219/
# >
# > Since XPath is a subset of XQuery, this would appear to
# meet the need.
# >
#
# Almost perfectly, thanks (wish I had thought of that).
#
# Given that we already run Saxon going the whole nine yards
# might make even more sense. However, I'll note that the
# verbosity of XQueryX makes XSLT look like Perl by way of
# comparison. It strikes me that we could also use XQuery for a
# validation language similar to the way Schematron uses Xpath;
# if a query does not return a result set the statement is not
# regarded as valid? If so, we could write directly in XQuery
# and skip XQueryX?
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