[Versa] Versa issue: quote madness

[Michael Olson]

On Aug 29, 2005, at 12:09 AM, Chimezie Ogbuji wrote:

>> I think Chime was talking about using "<" as an operator as well (as
>> short hand for the function)
>
> Yeah I was suggesting operators as shorthands for gte,gt,lt,lte,eq,
> and, or, neq,etc...
> But, due to the use of '>' and '<' by traversal operators
> gte/gt,lte/lt have akward replacements.  However, I think the boolean
> operators (for 'and' and 'or' ) have more useful alternatives:
>
> type(rss:item) - dc:date -> type(.) = xsd:date and gte('2001-01-01')
>
> or
>
> type(rss:item) - dc:date -> type(.) = xsd:date and >= '2001-01-01'
>
> instead of
>
> type(rss:item) - dc:date -> and(eq(type(.),xsd:date),gte('2001-01-01'))

I'm for this.

Mike

>
>>
>> . - ns:age -> < 30 as opposed to . - ns:age -> lt(30)
>>
>> That feels weird though
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
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