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Re: XPointer crisis

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• Subject: Re: XPointer crisis
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:05:35 -0500
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On Friday 01 February 2002 02:08 pm, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> I think XPointer is useful, but it should not own the fragment
> identifier. That should be reserved for something *much* simpler.

Perhaps that is the *real* issue? We keep hearing about complexity, 
but implementation experience says that XPointer is only incrementally 
worse than XPath (which for many things is way overkill).

FWIW. I think that it's fine for XPointer to own the fragment 
identifier of text/xml.... just not for things like SVG. 

Ultimately, fragment identifiers are a hack anyway.

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