- From: Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:33:30 -0700
- To: "XMLProc List" <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <28d56ece0704291433y5c9a9559r860c2684453e1343@mail.gmail.com>
We've all stated that we want to rename the 'target' option for XPaths. Here are the steps that have this option: p:delete p:insert p:rename p:replace p:unwrap p:wrap We've gotten to the point where some have agreed that we should call this option 'match' and use match patterns. On the call, I think Henry noted that it doesn't matter whether we call it 'match' or 'select' because we still need to define what the step does with "inner" matches. That is, "div" or "//div" still can match a div inside a div and so our steps must define what they do in those situations. Some steps consume their targets and so the case of inner matches goes away: p:delete p:replace The rest have definable semantics for handling inner matches: * p:insert - it is well defined where the insertion happens for each match regardless of whether one is contained in another. The canonical example here is inserting a paragraph into every 'div' in an XHTML document. * p:rename - Renaming an element doesn't affect its child. * p:unwrap - Removing an element wrapper doesn't affect its children. * p:wrap - Added an element wrapper doesn't affect its children. -- --Alex Milowski "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language considered." Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
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