- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:25:42 -0400
- To: stephengreenubl@gmail.com
- Cc: "Rushforth, Peter" <Peter.Rushforth@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>, "public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org" <public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org>
On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 09:01 +0100, Stephen D Green wrote:
> I agree that XPath adds too much unnecessary
> complexity. If part of the idea is to support bots
> and crawlers it might be too much for them.
Which programming language suitable for writing bots does not have XPath
in it already?
> Supporting 'header' level links is clearly a must.
> Not so sure whether support for links within the
> actual XML ('body') is so important though, is it?
You don't get much hypertext with them. Also, XML doesn't have the
concept of a head and body :) unless you mean HTTP headers.
Liam
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