Re: Revised XPointer xpointer() scheme discouragement

On 2007-08-14 11:54:39 -0400, Frederick Hirsch wrote:

> "[XPointer-xpointer] is in Working Draft status as of publication of this 
> edition of XML Signature.  Therefore, use of the xpointer() scheme beyond 
> the minimal usage discussed in this section is discouraged. Similar 
> functionality
> can be achieved using a full URI and transforms."

There's actually a subtlety around comment handling, so in order to
reproduce the effect of a random xpointer(), you need to use
#xpointer(/) in the URI parameter, and then a transform.

I wonder, though, if we really need this language at all.

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Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>