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  • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: Regier Avery J <RegierAveryJ AT JohnDeere.com>
  • Cc: xom-interest <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] XOM 1.1: XPath
  • Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:25:12 -0500

Regier Avery J wrote:


I'd be disappointed in seeing anything less than 100% conformance. In that your goals
are expressly "correctness, simplicity, and performance, in that order", I
would assume correctness to include completeness. Practically, I'm working on an
internal company messaging spec that may include the use of XPath and XPointer. If I
have to write into the spec limitiations on the use of XPath because there are no
libraries that support the whole spec, it would be a major pain and negate a lot of the
benefit of pointing people to an existing open spec rather than writing our own and the
implementations that go with it. (With that in mind, I'm all for seeing XPointer
support as well. :)

Saxon and NUX already give you close to 100% compliance to XPath. (Apparently there are some holes around the edges, but you're unlikely to fall into them unless you go looking for them.) I'm just trying for the right 80/20 split that will earn the biggest payback with the least effort and complexity. Integrating full XPath into XOM would require a much more complex API.


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