Yuri de Wit writes (about XUpdate): >This new language being defined is supposed to describe document updates >as opposed to document transformations. The key thing here is the >assumption that the source document is the same as the result document.
I think the W3C intends to address this under XQuery rather than XSLT. Notice item 3.2.5 at: http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-requirements To people with SQL heritage, that probably makes good sense. .................David Marston
