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  • From: Philippe Poulard <philippe.poulard@s...>
  • To: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:31:21 +0100

David Carlisle a écrit :
>> A useful output is what I called a canonical path, a structure composed 
>> of 2 parts :
>> -an XPath expression that starts from the root and descend from node to 
>> node by naming them and index them
>> -a mapping of the prefixes involved in the XPath expressions
> 
> 
> For this usage, the (ISO) schematron skeleton files include templates
> that output xpaths (not using any prefixes) to the context of the
> message. (It also has templates that make xpaths with prefixes, suitable
> for human readable error messages, but in many XPath API, it's just
> simpler to report something as
> /*[10]/*[5]
> rather than
> /a:b[3]/c:d[2]
> and then worry how to bind the namespace prefixes.
> 

Surely. We can find cases when one is better that the other. Naming 
elements has the advantage that in many cases we can identify the 
element in fault at a glance.

-- 
Cordialement,

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