XBL: syntax to use for includes attributes.

The draft says, "The XBL task force has not yet decided the syntax to 
use for includes attributes." and requests feedback on this issue, so 
here you go.

My feeling is that full XPath 1.0 is a minimum syntax for the includes 
attributes. I assume the context node for the XPath expression would be 
the matched node.

However, I really wonder if this goes far enough. I can foresee a lot of 
use cases that need something Turing complete. For instance, you might 
want to place each subsequent ten nodes in a different box. I can't see 
how to do that with just XPath when you don't know the number of nodes 
in advance.

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Received on Monday, 6 December 2004 21:48:12 UTC