- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 12:37:41 -0500
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>, public-microxml@w3.org
James Clark scripsit:
> Though it pains me to say it, I suspect the most appropriate MicroXPath is
> CSS3 selectors.
The trouble there AFAICT is that selectors allow you to refer to element
F contained in element E (with the path "E F"), but there is no way
to talk about an element E which contains an F. In XPath terms, the
only predicates are attribute-based predicates. Also the CSS3 design
suffers from the second-system effect: it was just enhanced without being
redesigned, and would be awkwardly big to just adopt. MicroXML demands
something with more conceptual integrity, I think.
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