"query must be a string literal" - does Katmai remove this restriction ?

In 2005, there is a limitation that queries passed into the methods xml.query, value, ... etc. must be a string literal.If not, you get the error "argument 1 of the xml data type method "query" must be a string literal."

Will this limitation be removed in SQL Server 2008 ?

My problem in 2005:http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1933575&SiteID=1

Others hitting this issue as well, under different scenarios:

https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=288403&wa=wsignin1.0

Thanks,

Andy Mackie

[1052 byte] By [AndrewMackie] at [2008-1-7]