- From: Steven J. DeRose <sderose@inso.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 15:18:45 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 10:47 AM 03/11/97 -0400, you wrote: >Request for information: what TEI xptr implementations are there? And >what do they implement? I'm going to be *very* reluctant to >vote for anything, no matter how cool & peachy-keen, that nobody >is actually using. I realized i never answered this one: * Panorama has a reasonable subset, and their HyTime support is built on top of the TEI xptrs (which i find rather gratifying). * DynaText has support for both P1 and P3 version xptrs. I think I did all the genetic traversals (but only did negative instance numbers for the easy cases; that was just lack of time, tho, not a strategic decision; and didn't do regexes within GIs and attrs; and I think i limited it to 10 attr/value pairs or something (can we say 'in a hurry'? I knew we could)). Didn't do TOKEN or STR because it's a pain to count them, esp. when you don't know if <P>now<X>here gives one word or two (if X is ITEM or FOOTNOE it's two, if X is EMPH maybe not). I didn't do SPACE or FOREIGN. Wanted to do PATTERN but didn't have time to hook up a regex module, so didn't. Obviously ROOT and HERE. I didn't do spans directly, but you can build them by calling the stuff i built twice instead of once from your application. Not sure who else has them, but aren't they like Thneeds? Steven J. DeRose, Ph.D. Chief Scientist Inso Electronic Publishing Solutions (formerly EBT) sderose@inso.com <---- note new email address
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