- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:04:21 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-webapi@w3.org
On Feb 10, 2006, at 00:17, Ian Hickson wrote:
> It may be worth considering that if the editor of the specification
> can't
> get the XPath expressions in the examples correct, it is very
> likely that
> authors of content using the specification will have even more
> troubles.
If you want the internal details, I was playing with just how much I
was thinking of subsetting and kept changing my mind. I knew the
XPath wasn't correct, I was just etching. I forgot to fix it later.
Big deal.
> Maybe using XPath for this purpose is not the optimal choice?
XPath may or may not have design flaws. Personally I like it. I am
not aware of any other general-purpose addressing mechanism available
to W3C specifications anyway, so I don't see what else could be used
anyway.
--
Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
Received on Friday, 10 February 2006 09:04:31 UTC