<div dir="ltr">Sorry, what I meant is: how did sequences come into XPath? Was it borrowed from another system or did it appear first in XPath?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-06-26 17:29 GMT+02:00 G. Ken Holman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com" target="_blank">gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">At 2015-06-26 17:23 +0200, W.S. Hager wrote:<br>
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As an aside, does anyone know what the formal definition of sequences is, where it came from, who introduced it into xquery?<br>
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It is in XPath:<br>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/#id-sequence-expressions" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/#id-sequence-expressions</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/#id-sequencetype-syntax" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/#id-sequencetype-syntax</a><br>
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I hope this helps.<br>
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. . . . . . Ken<br>
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