- From: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 10:26:18 -0500
- To: Frederick Hirsch via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Cc: public-annotation@w3.org
On 2015-11-04 09:51, Frederick Hirsch via GitHub wrote: > should I be getting nervous about XPath and the potential need for > possible text normalization and canonicalization? No... > Are there > performance costs associated with normalization/canonicalization and > can they be avoided? For Web annotations the document will presumably already have been parsed using the HTML 5 rules before the annotations are processed, so the necessary degree of normalization is probably already there. > Does findtext eliminate the need for XPath in our use cases? Can it? > should it? findText is built on selectors - both CSS and XPath in the current draft - so no, you still need a selection mechanism. Liam > > http://w3c.github.io/findtext/ -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead; Digital publishing; HTML Accessibility
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