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Subject: Re: [regrep] PATH syntax in queries
Sounds reasonable. Farrukh Najmi wrote: > Section 8.2.7 in ebRS describes the XPATH subset path filter expression > syntax. In our experience with implementation of V2.1 this is difficult > to implement if the underlying implementation is not based upon an XML DB. > > Note also that we are adding wildcard-based pattern matching support to > filter query using LIKE syntax in V3. > > I would like to propose that we modify the PATH syntax specification to > require the pattern matching support but make all other XPATH syntax be > optional. Specifically it only effects the use of '//' syntax to denote > descendent of. That can easily be done with wild card matching on the > path (e.g. /urn:uuid:..../foo/%) > > The above change would make it easier for all implementations to support > the spec without sacrificing functionality. Does this sound like a > reasonable improvement to make the spec easier to implement, without > reducing functionality? > > -- > Regards, > Farrukh > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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