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On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 12:55, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > On Friday 01 February 2002 12:36 pm, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > > XPointer is a huge beast - a good candidate for a 2.0 spec, but > > > enormous for a 1.0 spec. I'd be much much happier to see > > > something smaller for a first round. > > > > Took me one week to implement the near complete support in libxml > > on top of the existing XPath implementation. > > Took me about a week to add XPointer support to XT too (really > interesting in match patterns ;-)). What level of support are you adding? XPointer as more-or-less a query doesn't seem very difficult to me. XPointer as decorating a tree with links and presenting that tree interactively seems very very difficult. > Comparatively, I would say that *XPath* is a huge beast. Sure, but at least XPath thinks in terms of nodes, and doesn't jump boundaries on a regular basis. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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