Re: [xml-dev] Re: Hello XQuery ... Goodbye XSLT?

Dimitre Novatchev

> To avoid recursion in tree processing (isn't this what XSLT
> and XQuery are all about)? This should be impossible by definition.

I think you are confusing recursive data structures, which both 
languages must be able to handle, with recursive algorithms.

We could force programmers to use a recursive algorithm instead of 
writing a path expression like this:

	//table

Why would we want to?

Jonathan