- From: Bryce K. Nielsen <bryce@sysonyx.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:04:05 -0700
- To: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> When people ask for generated XPath expressions, they are usually asking for > some kind of canonical path from the root to a node - typically a path whose > steps all use the child or attribute axis and whose NodeTests all consist of > an element or attribute name. > > Even with this restriction, however, if the schema is recursive then the > number of possible canonical XPaths that can retrieve a node is infinite. > I think perhaps a more useful tool would be an XPath-Generator, something that would display an instance document, then selecting a certain node would give you the XPath you were looking for. But again, this may not be that practical since most XPaths are relative, you're trying to grab node X while you are on node Y, so maybe an XPath generator where you tell the application which node to start with... But to bring this to full circle, what's the actual purpose for an "XPATH dump"? Maybe if we knew the 'requirements' better, we could propose a better solution. Bryce K. Nielsen SysOnyx, Inc. (www.sysonyx.com) Makers of xmlLinguist, the EDI-to-XML Translator http://www.xmllinguist.com
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