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RE: ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer

• To: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>,"Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer
• From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:53:44 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <p04330100b9e22e044446@[192.168.254.4]>

> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 1:00 AM
> To: Julian Reschke; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer
>
>
> At 3:01 PM +0100 10/27/02, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> >IMHO: it can be a resource without an URI actually been assigned
> to it. The
> >essential thing is that you *could* assign that URI.
>
> OK. That makes some sense. What do you mean by the word "could"? Doie
> sit require that we could use existing schemes and syntaxes to assign
> a URI? or merely that such a scheme is conceivable?

IMHO: the latter. Such as

after-x-include:(escapedURI)

> For example, in an analogous situation, would it be OK to consider a
> particular group of frames with particular documents in each frame a
> resource, even though there's not as yet any URI that can point to
> them? (I'm thinking pre-XFrames here.)

I think so. For instance, it shouldn't be hard to come up with a URI scheme
that would describe the individual frames and their relationship.

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