Re: Using XPointer with HTML

"Nick Kew" <nick@webthing.com>
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Steven Pemberton wrote:

> The subject arose in ER because we wanted an xpointer-like mechanism
> available in Valet reports for client software - specifically Jim's
> stuff.  Jim and I called them "Fuzzy Xpointers".  We haven't properly
> formalised them, but rather we have an empirical working model:
>   * Construct an XML normalisation of the HTML

Construct a normalisation of the HTML, no XML needed, just an agreed
structure based on the SGML. no XML needed.

>   * Use a (simplified) Xpointer into that
> We called them "Fuzzy Xpointers".

I've tried to drop the X :-)

Jim.

Received on Wednesday, 3 April 2002 13:23:32 UTC