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RE: XPath's role (Was: Re: Re: . in for)
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:53:00 -0000
- Subject: RE: XPath's role (Was: Re: [xsl] Re: . in for)
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> Also, as XPath gets more complicated, XPointer gets more complicated,
> doesn't it? There seems to be a lot of stuff in XPath 2.0 that is not
> really needed for linking between documents. Even XPath 1.0 makes
> XPointers unnecessarily complicated; due to that, I think
> there will be
> a lot of subsetting of XPointer to filter out complicated XPath stuff.
Yes; we have been assuming that there would probably be a need for some kind
of XPath 2.0 subset to meet the needs of applications like XPointer.
Mike Kay
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