XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Andrew Thompson scripsit:

> Is it just me or was the element() scheme completely crippled to avoid 
> letting it compete with the full xpointer() scheme?
> Was it just kept so simplistic so as to make sure no one could find an 
> objection to it?

It was kept simple to make it trivial to implement it.

> There's really no way to specify any kind of wildcard or range is there?
> Wow. This seriously limits what you can do with XInclude doesn't it? Is 
> there anything on the horizon that has anything like the power of the 
> xpointer() scheme? 

The XLink people got seriously burned out and gave up, from what I understand.

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