RE: [dom-xpath] Competing Proposals Proposal from Jonathan Marsh on 2000-05-10 (www-dom-xpath@w3.org from May 2000)

From: Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 15:06:18 -0700
To: "'Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus'" <Scott_Boag@lotus.com>, www-dom-xpath@w3.org
Message-ID: <116DFD732FA92E4D9B647C8EEF6DAF101558CB@red-pt-02.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus [mailto:Scott_Boag@lotus.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:46 PM

> Not sure I grock this paragraph.  I meant, the API should be 
> able to deal
> with expression languages other than XPath.  I changed the 
> header to be
> "Expression Language Independent".  Does this make it more clear?

You say it should be expression language independent, but a lot of the
interface deals with XPath-specific stuff like context initialization, even
match pattern support.  Can you rationalize this?

Received on Wednesday, 10 May 2000 18:08:55 UTC