[ZPT] Mini proposal: repeat-define and repeat-condition

Evan Simpson evan@4-am.com
Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:33:23 -0600


Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Evan Simpson wrote at 2003-1-25 22:38 -0600:
>  > options/adict/a;b
>  > exists:request/form/a;b
> What is the semantics of ";" in the last two examples?
> 
>    I never saw a description of the operator ";" for these contexts.

In these contexts, it is not an operator, but part of a literal string. 
  Path expressions allow punctuation, among other characters, as part of 
a path element.  This is useful for dictionary lookups.

Cheers,

Evan @ 4-am