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RE: ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer

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• Subject: RE: ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: 28 Oct 2002 19:32:05 +0100
• In-reply-to: <002501c27eae$61676310$6401a8c0@pcukmka>
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Mike,

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 19:18, Michael Kay wrote:

> Perhaps I should ask for a vote: do people on this list prefer the
> simple 3-page James Clark description of the XPath 1.0 data model, with
> all these inherent ambiguities, or the complex 30-page committee-written
> description of the XPath 2.0 data model, which attempts to eliminate all
> such ambiguities by diving into layers of abstraction and formalism?

As for myself, I would prefer the method used in the XPath 2.0 data
model spec applied to the XPath 1.0 data model :-) !

Otherwise, if you compare the specifications of the XPath 1.0 and XPath
2.0 datamodels, I don't think you're comparing apples and apples since a
significant amount of complexity has been added to the concept itself,
explaining a part of the increase of the number of pages, the other part
only being needed to eliminate the ambiguities.

Eric
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