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On 21 Aug 2001 17:21:57 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > The implementation time and processing cost has been pointed out > quite a few time, I think the former is a question of getting the > right toolkit, if you have XPath implementing XPointer is not very > hard (took me too weeks part time). While I'm delighted that there _is_ an XPointer implementation, and thank you for writing it, I really wish you'd stop claiming that "implementing XPointer is not very hard". If it's so easy, why is genuine XPointer support such a rare creature? I've implemented the (braindead simple) child sequence portion of it, and I'm working on improving my support for IDs in that mix, but I can't say that I find (or that many other people find) that "implementing XPointer is not very hard." I'm certainly not a programming wizard, but I don't think I'm also in finding that implementing XPointer (as it currently stands) is in fact quite difficult. Sadly, claims like this have a direct impact on the kind of XPointer spec we're like to see emerge from the W3C. The nature of that spec is going to have a direct impact on the usefulness of XLink and XInclude, and I can't say the future looks particularly bright. Simon St.Laurent
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