- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 03:56:20 -0400
- To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Larry Masinter scripsit: > With HTML, the location of A/name nodes is relatively robust, > since they label the context. I don't think char= or > line= are robust, and match='s robustness depends on > the regular expression. There's a tradeoff between robustness and the ability to point into frozen documents where the author has not politely scattered lots of ids for you. That's why XPointer supports both ids and Xanadu-style tumblers as the simple cases, along with the super-duper-XPath version that isn't yet ready for prime time. -- Real FORTRAN programmers can program FORTRAN John Cowan in any language. --Allen Brown jcowan@reutershealth.com
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