- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:29:23 +0200
- To: TSDTF <public-wai-ert-tsdtf@w3.org>
Hi, At 10:51 13/06/2007, I wrote: >Hi, > >As you may know, XPath 2.0 [1] became a W3C Recommendation in >January 2007. The current TCDL 2.0 spec was mostly written before >that time and only references XPath 1.0: >"The xpath attribute type specifies the location of an issue by >means of an XPath expression as defined in XPath 1.0." [2] > >Would there be any objections against allowing XPath 2.0? According >to the abstract of the XPath 2.0 spec, XPath 2.0 is a superset of >XPath 1.0, so there would be no need to make immediate changes; it >would just give us a more powerful expression language when we need it. In my previous message, I overlooked the incompatibilities [3] between XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0. It appears from a superficial look, however, that these compatibilities are mainly related to functions, operators and data types, which are hardly (if ever) used in our XPath expressions. The namespace axis (namespace::foo) is deprecated in XPath 2.0, but it is not used anywhere in the BenToWeb test cases anyway. >[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/> >[2] <http://bentoweb.org/refs/TCDL2.0.html#edef-location> [3] <http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-backwards-compatibility> Best regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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