[XOM-interest] XInclude xpointer scheme

Elliotte Harold erharold at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 12:59:13 EST 2008


Mimil Mimil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if you plan to add support for the xpointer scheme for XML
> Inclusion in XOM. If you do so you will be the first java library with this
> feature (as far as I know there is none).
> I am not sure to understand where is the problem making XOM not currently
> implement it, can you point me?
> 

The xpointer scheme includes ranges that extend across element 
boundaries. That makes it relatively hard to fit into a tree-based model 
of any kind. :-(

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