Re: Namespaces aside, absolutizing is none of _X_Path's business

Al Gilman scripsit:

> John Cowan raised an interesting idea when he expanded the InfoSet options
> from _either_ literal or absolutized to "either or _both__."

I should have said "either literal or both".  There can be no question
of *not* providing access to the literal value; if nothing else,
DOM Level 1 requires it, since Level 1 has no concept of namespaces.

> XPath is [in my naive perspective] about how to trace and write out paths
> whithin XML document structures.  It should not fold in a segment of
> "following the path through URI space" as an un-severable component of an
> XPath-atomic path segment.

This seems a strained distinction to me, given that the base URI is an
infoset property, and that RFC 2396 resolution is a purely syntactic
operation.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
	Yes, I know the message date is bogus.  I can't help it.
		--me, on far too many occasions

Received on Sunday, 4 June 2000 14:16:37 UTC