- From: Peter Murray-Rust <Peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 22:41:12 GMT
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
In message <199706110050.UAA18150@www10.w3.org> Michael Sperberg-McQueen writes: [... justification for keeping TEI keywords ...] > > I hope this helps clarify why I want a full set of tree-traversal > keywords. Maybe James is right, and this is sort of a poor-folk's > query language. If so, I suspect it's smaller and easier to implement > than any of the Rich Folk's query languages, and to a really > surprising degree it does get the job done. I'd like to support this - when I demonstrate this facility to people who haven't seen XML before, and tell them it *comes free with the [draft] language* they are impressed. It's a very strong selling point over other approaches. [Of course they ask about regexp :-)]. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust, domestic net connection Virtual School of Molecular Sciences http://www.vsms.nottingham.ac.uk/
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