- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:17:41 +0200
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: public-webapi <public-webapi@w3.org>
* Lachlan Hunt wrote: >One problem is the use of "select*" is similar to the .NET XPath methods >(selectSingleNode/selectNodes), though the use of Element instead of >Node reduces the confusion slightly. Those are also proprietary methods >that aren't used outside of .NET (The DOM3XPath standard uses evaluate() >instead.). Here you forgot to list MSXML, Internet Explorer through MSXML, Adobe Flash, Apache Xalan, JDOM, dom4j, Jaxen, XML::DOM::Lite, and many more, and it has long since been agreed upon by the WebAPI group to add the methods to DOM Level 3 XPath, precisely because they are so widely de- ployed. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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