Re: XPath support for using multiple ixml implementations from John Lumley on 2026-03-03 (public-ixml@w3.org from March 2026)

From: John Lumley <john@saxonica.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 19:45:24 +0000
To: Bethan Tovey-Walsh <bytheway@linguacelta.com>
Cc: Wendell Piez <wapiez@wendellpiez.com>, ixml <public-ixml@w3.org>
Message-Id: <8590A0CC-EE5C-462C-A4A1-9A52DD885A6C@saxonica.com>

My implementation gives you all the ambiguous parses as a sequence of XML documents. If you inadvertently generate a (nearly-)infinite grammar, you’ll either be waiting for a time much longer than solving the 42 question, or more likely crashing you browser!

John Lumley
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> On 3 Mar 2026, at 19:37, Bethan Tovey-Walsh <bytheway@linguacelta.com> wrote:
> 
> It would be interesting to hear from implementers whether they would find it onerous to offer users access to more than one parse, and - if so - what technical barriers stand in the way.

Received on Tuesday, 3 March 2026 19:45:40 UTC