- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 08:47:20 -0400
- To: www-dom@w3.org
> would be *extremely* beneficial to have a standard query API for executing > XPath queries built into the DOM spec. It seems like a no-brainer. As was pointed out in Dilbert, a no-brainer decision isn't always what you want... Yes, an XML querying capability is desirable, and in fact the Traversal chapter of DOM Level 2 started out as including querying. But the editorial team decided that attempting to design this API before the XML Query Working Group defined the semantics of querying in XML really didn't make much sense. There's also a open question of whether querying really belongs in the DOM per se -- or should be an API in its own right, which DOMs _and_ other forms of XML storage could implement. Known issue, on the list of things to be examined when we have time and more information to work with. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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