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Re: HELP Needed in XPATH.

• To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Subject: Re: HELP Needed in XPATH.
• From: Jens Stavnstrup <js@d...>
• Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:18:19 +0200 (CEST)
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• Reply-to: Jens Stavnstrup <js@d...>

Eric,

I had the same discussion with my colleagues years ago, and we were
also a bit confused. Therefore, I contacted W3C (Max Froumetin), and
his responce was that the web page was non-normative and contains the
"three parts" statement for historical reasons. He also refered my to
the specs themselves which are normative. See the abstract of
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/, which says that XSL consists of two parts.

The XPath spec only says that is describes functionality shared by
XSLT and Xpointer, not that it is part of the XSLT family.

I am only refereing to version 1.0 of the specs, it will take a long
time (if ever) before I will be confident with the upcomming ver. 2.0
specs.


Regards,

Jens



On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Eric van der Vlist wrote:

> Jens,
>
> Le mardi 27 septembre 2005 à 14:15 +0200, Jens Stavnstrup a écrit :
> > Eric,
> >
> > Except that statement is not correct, but remain there for historical
> > reasons.
>
> Hmmm... This statement is in a page updated 2005/08/26 by Liam Quin and
> I'd expect it to be accurate !
>
> >  XPath was originally part of XSL, but was separated a long time ago.
> > So XSL consists only of two documents (at least the 1.0 version).
>
> I don't think so several reasons:
>
>       * Until XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 (if that's what you're referring
>         to) become recommendations, the only rock solid specs on which
>         one should rely are XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0 and they definitely
>         describe themselves as part of the XSL family of specs.
>       * If you consider that XPath 2.0 has moved along to new areas with
>         the XQuery 1.0 spec, you should also consider that XSLT 2.0 has
>         done the same "migration" and XSL should be for you only one
>         document (and not two).
>
> Furthermore, my answer is and will remain relevant in the context of a
> question asking how XPath is related to XSL-FO!
>
> Eric
>
> --
> Have you ever thought about unit testing XSLT templates?
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