[sc34wg3] TMQL: Predicate invocation and scope

Robert Barta rho at devc.at
Mon Jun 30 14:42:03 EDT 2008


On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:24:38PM +0200, Lars Heuer wrote:
> There seems no easy way how to constrain the scope of an predicate
> invocation. Is that intentional?

yes.

> IMO it would be nice if the user can constrain the scope of a
> predicate-invocation, like:
> 
>      member-of[@year-1969](member: $p, group: $g)
> 
> Otherwise the user has to fall back to path expressions and cannot use
> the (more readable) predicate invocations.

Have you considered how many different combinations there are for
filtering scopes?

\rho


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