- From: Joseph M. Reagle Jr. <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 12:11:20 -0400
- To: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "Daniel Veillard" <veillard@w3.org>, "John Boyer" <jboyer@PureEdge.com>, w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
At 15:32 2000-06-07 +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >There is no debate that the referent of a barename XPointer == XPath >id() function is a nodeset consisting of a single element node (or >none). My initial confusion resulted in not understanding what the "analog of the HTML fragment identifier behavior" [2] meant. John pointed out it didn't mean what I thought it meant, and you and Daniel have confirmed that. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-ietf-xmldsig/2000AprJun/0212.html [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr#synth-2.1.2 >And in the >XPath data model, just like the Infoset, when you point at something, >you implicitly point at everything you can access from it. Could you cite the text you are referring to for the sake of completeness? >I think for me to help further with this, I need to see the referenced >correspondence from James and Steve -- is it in the dsig archive? I don't think there was any correspondence from James or Steve. _________________________________________________________ Joseph Reagle Jr. W3C Policy Analyst mailto:reagle@w3.org IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/
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