Re: [Xmldb-org-xupdate] Poorly defined update instruction

[Ronald B. <rpb...@rp...>]

Wolfgang Meier wrote:

>> 3) It would be useful for update to allow element, attribute, etc. as 
>> content. That said, I'm not convinced it's worth the complexity, as 
>> you can simply delete the element and reinsert it with the new content.
> 
> I would like to propose a "replace" instruction for this purpose. Maybe 
> I'm wrong, but to replace an element by first deleting and then 
> reinserting it, you need to keep track of the element's position. This 
> is certainly possible (using a variable, for example), but a distinct 
> "replace" expression would make it easier and leaves it to the XUpdate 
> implementation to remember the previous position.

Good point. That occurred to me later as well.

-- Ron