Re: top-level location-path context dependencies

Jim Tivy wrote:
> All of the above is all "outside" the XQuery Language and its specification
> in the "external environment".

So for my trivial use case "give me all <foo> elements across all 
documents" I have to write vendor-specific Java glue code?  Relying on 
vendor-specific Java glue code should be a last resort, an escape valve, 
not a standard way of doing trivial queries.

-jh-