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Re: XPointer crisis

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• Subject: Re: XPointer crisis
• From: "David G. Durand" <david@d...>
• Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:22:04 -0500
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At 1:14 PM -0500 2/1/02, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 11:59, David G. Durand wrote:
>>  If you want Xpointer killed, you can of course relax, because it
>  > seems to be dying quickly.
>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.

The chances of there ever being an XPointer 2.0 look very dim right 
now. Conformance levels would be a good idea, perhaps.

I must say that much of the size of XPointer is due to unification 
with XPath...

The best argument that I've seen for conformance levels is to make a 
level that would be easy for streaming-only applications -- This 
would include child sequences, ranges and labels, but eliminate 
more-complex navigation that requires an implementor to either keep a 
tree around or do some pretty clever preprocessing on the path.

I could (personally) lose a lot of the navigation features, but 
without ranges, none of the applications that I have for Xpointer 
will be accommodated. Given the number of XPath implementations, 
though, I can't see XPointer as being that hard.

>I even hope that a simpler XPointer might return some life to the
>listless XLink.

XLink is going to stay listless until there's some version of 
XPointer, that's for sure.

  -- David
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