> > Okay thanks to everyone for the replies. > > I think the scope of what I was looking for got thrown out in all the > discussion, or perhaps I wasn't clear enough early in my initial post. > > I am not interested in XQuery, and I am only interested in a small > subset of XPath. I am concerned with comparing two path expressions, > these path expressions may have predicates, what I didn't make clear > is that those predicates may not contain functions, only the > comparison operators eq, ne, gt, ge, lt, le, and =, !=, >, >=, <, <=.
So you need an algorithm to test subsumption of path expressions (with the given limitations)? Or just that one case? _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
