RE: A Comments on xpath

> hi w3c,
>  I am a software engineer, and I like xpath very march, 
> It(xpath) facilitate my
> work very march. But I feeled very surprise why there are not 
> other operation in
> xpath,such as update/remove/add which are used wide.I advise 
> you to  introduce
> other operation ,such as update/remove/add, to xpath, and 
> make xpath operateing
> xml like SQL operateing relate table.
> 

XQuery is a superset of XPath designed to fulfil the role of a database
query language. W3C is working on an update facility for XQuery. You can
read the requirements here:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xquery-update-requirements-20050211/

In fact, design work is a lot more advanced than the requirements document
might suggest, though update will not be included in XQuery 1.0.

Michael Kay