[Versa] DOT

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:26 -0600, Michael Olson wrote:
> > It's strange that the meaning of this dot path stuff is based on a
> > temporary nesting of intermediate contexts rather than something in the
> > underlying model.  I think this blows the XPath and UNIX file system
> > comparison and makes this really hard to intuitively understand.
> >
> > I would prefer to have a special, named variable set up to represent  
> > the
> > statement
> >
> > all() - * -> ft:statement-uri($versa:current-statement) ==
> > "http://foo.com"
> >
> 
> I think I like this better.  we define (smaller names to cut down on  
> typing)
> 
> $versa:statement
> $versa:subject
> $versa:predicate
> $versa:object
> 
> The last three are shortcuts onto the first.
> 
> Then "." is defined as the appropriate value from the last three  
> variables

Sounds good.  I expect we should be clear that these are undefined
outside traversal expressions?


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