RE: nasty namespace issue (was RE: Is minimalism a goal?)

> We *know* the dirt-simple MS API works (sorta); I think we should
> get just a
> LITTLE more ambitious in the first iteration, then keep getting more and
> more complex/conformant/powerful until we come to the point of diminishing
> returns.
>
> So, I'd pose the question:  "What's the next step beyond
> selectNodes() that
> we can agree on as useful?  Is there some tweak for namespace
> awareness that
> we can add ... or should we address the context issue first, the variable
> binding issue first, or what?
>
> Is anyone comfortable with this approach?
>

Yes, definitely. I think the namespace issue is the most critical out the
door. I would vote for addressing that first.


-aaron