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Re: Question for the XPath and DOM folks

• To: "Garland foster" <garland_foster@s...>
• Subject: Re: Question for the XPath and DOM folks
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 14:04:45 -0600
• Cc: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from "Garland foster" <garland_foster@s...> of "Sat, 20 Jul 2002 16:52:48 -0300." <02c601c23027$0665fc40$c000a8c0@salutia>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> Well a very interesting point, IMHO if you use Xpath to query a DOM tree you
> can obtain
> a) A Xpath nodeset unrelated to the DOM tree
> b) References to DOM nodes as the nodeset
> 
> If a) No problem except that you can't use the result of an Xpath query to
> modify a DOM tree.
> If b) then the Xpath processor is not Xpath is a sort-of xpathForDom but as
> we see it can't
> be a compliant Xpath processor.
> 
> I might be confused or wrong so I'll wait for an authoritative answer.

No, you are exactly right.

I suppose it depends on what the meaning of "XPath" is.  If it's the spec 
given at

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath 

Than there can only be one answer to Dare's question, which is what I gave.

I must be missing something, myself.


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