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Re: We need an XPath API

• From: Christian Nentwich <c.nentwich@c...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 12:51:49 +0000

> 1) Small, lightweight
> 2) Should emit/accept XML representation
>    of XPath expression
> 3) Provide info about expression
> 4) Define an XML representation of XPath expressions

I don't agree with 4 (the representation should be hidden behind the API.. I
think an API for executing queries should be good enough):

5) Work on DOM trees as well as with a SAX parser (DOM tree query support is
essential in my opinion.. SAX alone is no good. What if your dom tree comes
out of a database?)

6) Allow xpath functions to be hooked in via callbacks (Xalan does that, I
personally use it to override variable lookup and for a transitive closure
function).

Christian

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