Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xmlschema-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: Dump XPATHs from schema? [Thread Next] RE: Dump XPATHs from schema?To: "'Bryce K. Nielsen'" <bryce@-------.--->, <xmlschema-dev@--.---> Date: 12/5/2004 10:07:00 PM > That'd be a hard ticket to fill, wouldn't it? There's practically an > unlimited number of XPath statements that could be generated > for an XML > document. Maybe you mean something that could generate the > list in a bit > more narrowly defined manner? When people ask for generated XPath expressions, they are usually asking for some kind of canonical path from the root to a node - typically a path whose steps all use the child or attribute axis and whose NodeTests all consist of an element or attribute name. Even with this restriction, however, if the schema is recursive then the number of possible canonical XPaths that can retrieve a node is infinite. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ From bryce@s... Mon Dec 06 04:04:06 2004 Re | ||||||
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