Re: Support WS-Management's XPath Level 2 dialect

The WS-RA WG reviewed your issue on "Eventing: Support WS-Management's 
XPath Level 2 dialect" [1] on May 11th [2] and 12th [3] 2010, during its 
face to face meeting. After discussion, the WG agreed to close this 
issue with no change to any specifications. The following points were made:

   1. Over the course of its lifetime the WS-RA WG has received several
      proposals and requests to support various flavors of XPath 1.0
      profiles, each one slightly different from the other.
   2. The membership of the WG has expressed very little interest in
      implementing the XPath Level 1 profile that is in the LC draft of
      WS-Fragment; so much so that the decision was made to remove it
      from that specification.
   3. Some members of the WG would like to see XPath 2.0 used as the
      basis for filtering or selection languages.
   4. In the judgment of the WS-RA WG it doesn't have the necessary
      experience to specify any dialects of XPath that will satisfy the
      needs of more than one particular domain (such as management).
      Rather than becoming a storehouse for various XPath profiles, the
      WS-RA specs should, as they already do, provide a simple and
      extensible framework that allows these domains to specify their
      own filtering/selection dialects.

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[4] as to whether this resolution of your issue is satisfactory.

[1]http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9612

[2]http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/10/05/2010-05-11.html

[3]http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/10/05/2010-05-12.html

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