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Re: XPattern Specification

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• Subject: Re: XPattern Specification
• From: Petr Cimprich <petr@g...>
• Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:04:12 +0100
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Alan Gutierrez wrote:

>    Refuse? I don't mean to come across as obstinate. I've been up
>    all night. Perhaps my tone is not what I would want it to be.
>  
>
Don't take me wrong, this hasn't been intended as reproach :)       

>    As far as handling content, I'm not thinking in terms of
>    fetching a nodes out of a tree, but in terms of capturing, and
>    responding to event with event handlers.
>
>    That's why I think there are two phases, defining the pattern
>    matching langauge, and then, as a second step, trying to come up
>    with a generic expression of capturing and replacing, or
>    inserting. The former is useful as on its own, for XML event
>    handling frameworks.
>  
>

Perhaps, XPattern could be limited to the first step, as of now. We want 
a common syntax for patterns to match against streams of events 
representing XML documents. Once you have a match, you can replace, 
insert, run templates, callbacks, whatever.


-- 
Petr Cimprich
Ginger Alliance
www.gingerall.com

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