AW: Definition of step

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	James Clark [SMTP:jjc@jclark.com]
> Gesendet am:	Dienstag, 13. Juli 1999 18:53
> An:	Weichel Bernhard (K3/EMW4) *
> Cc:	'www-xpath-comments@w3.org'
> Betreff:	Re: Definition of step
> 
> Thanks for your comment.  I think it's unlikely that the WG would want
> to consider a major redesign at this stage.
	[wl]  This is a decision of the WG.
>  
> Also this suggestion seems to lose the convenience of the
> abbreviations.  For example, being able to use simply
> 
>   foo
> 
> to select all foo children, or
> 
>  foo/bar
> 
> 
	what is 

	   child

	selct all children of all children with GID=child


	[wl]  Well this is true. But isn't abbreviation a syntax of its own?
In XML we have overcome omittag and shorttag because of all the problems
occuring with such abbreviaions.

	As a consequence, i think there should be some indicator turning
into abbreviated - or expaded mode. Obviously, abbreviated mode does not
support all details. The indicator could for example be the step separator.
"/" is abbreviation, "." is explicit syntax.

	then one can write 

	/foo/bar:3

	.child[?foo].child[?bar]:3

	you could even use

	/foo .child[?bar &@myatt==="foobar"]/nextfoo/nextbar

	It could be that there must be spaces to isolate the operators from
valid XML names.

[wl]  

Regards/Mit freundlichen Gruessen
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