Re: XPath Serialization

At 00/05/23 11:04 -0700, John Boyer wrote:
>
> Attached is the latest version of the XPath serialization spec.  The
> following changes were made:
>
> 2) Added the function here() to the XPath function library based on requests
> by the group at and after the Victoria FTF.  You want to have a look at it,
> though, because it is defined slightly differently than in the current
> XPointer draft.  Basically, they define it to return the element containing
> the attribute or text node that bears the Xpath expression.  I changed that
> to returning the actuall attribute, text or other node (if you want the
> element, you can get the parent, but if you are given an element, but it has
> more than one attribute bearing an Xpath, then there is room for ambiguity.

Then, on Fri, 26 May 2000 18:04:42 +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> well XPointer Last Call has finished and we are in the last steps
> toward moving XPointer to Candidate Recommendation status. Unfortunately
> this seems too late now to get this rather radical change to XPointer,
> and I suggest you rename your function call. I also suggest you send
> your proposal for extension of the XPath library to the XPath comment
> list so that it gets added (but under a different name you should suggest)
> in the next revision of XPath,

If it makes any difference (which I suspect it doesn't), I suggested
this change in the semantics of here() ten months ago. See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/1999JulSep/0007.html,
section 5.3.3.

-Michael Dyck

Received on Tuesday, 30 May 2000 01:28:33 UTC