[xsl] [slightly OT] question about PAX and XPath

[Amanda Birmingham <lists at imladris dot com>]

Hello, List,
I'm doing some programming using DOM methods to get info out of an xml 
document, and have been frustrated by the fact that, as far as I can tell, 
the only DOM methods that will accept XPaths as selectors are MS 
extensions, not standards (selectNodes, selectSingleNodes).  (If I've got 
this wrong, would someone correct me, please?)

I found something on the w3c's site about a proposal called Pax ... it 
looks to me like it might be aiming to solve just the issue I'm having--but 
I'm not sure (I find the w3c docs notoriously hard to read), and I'm having 
trouble finding info about this proposal anywhere *else*.

Could someone tell me if I'm way off base guessing what Pax is supposed to 
do, and/or point me toward some non-w3c description of it?  I'd love to 
know for sure what its goal is and expected time-to-recommendation ...

Thanks much,

Amanda Birmingham
Web Application Developer


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