Re: xpointer support

Hello,

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 03:36:08AM -0400, Nitin Indurkhya wrote:
> 
> does amaya have xpointer support?? i tried to follow an xlink within an 
> xml document and either i have it wrong or else the support is just not 
> there.
> 
> i have a xml file that is similar to the one below. the xlink shows up 
> in blue, but nothing happens when i doubleclick on it, but if the href 
> value is something like "gomi.xml" (a file that exists), the xlink is 
> followed properly. this suggests that xlink is working, but xpointer is not.
> 
> i'm using the latest 8.0-pre release

You're right.

Amaya supports XPointer, although it is not fully compliant (to be such,
you need to support all of XPath). We only use it for the moment for
annotations. We haven't tied the XPointer parser yet with the XLink code
because of lack of time.

-jose

Received on Thursday, 24 April 2003 09:55:13 UTC