On 16/07/2021 11:18, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> Does anyone have a pointer to code (XSLT or any C-alike) which takes
> an XPath (3.n would be great) and gives you the type signature of
> what it will return?
>
> e.g. //nook//cranny will return 'element('cranny')' in whatever
> notation or form.
>
> I am really only concerned with Xpath node types and their names if
> any, not XSD datatypes.
You could start with one of the XPath grammars for the REx Parser
Generator [1], generate a parser in your target language of choice, then
do whatever you want with the representation that the parser generates.
Regards,
Tony Graham.
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Senior Architect
XML Division
Antenna House, Inc.
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Skerries, Ireland
[1] https://www.bottlecaps.de/rex/
