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Re: XPath for Infoset extensions [was Annotations in XPath-NG?

• To: "Jeni Tennison" <jeni@j...>
• Subject: Re: XPath for Infoset extensions [was Annotations in XPath-NG?]
• From: "David Rosenborg" <darolst@p...>
• Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:28:22 +0200
• Cc: "Uche Ogbuji" <uche.ogbuji@f...>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@c...>, "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@d...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• References: <E17yS6Q-0005C3-00@m...> <f5b65wed6dd.fsf@e...> <005801c26de5$272f60f0$6500000a@KENNY> <160931649370.20021007105345@j...>

Jeni Tennison wrote:

> > Yes, direct PSVI access would be one possible application of an
> > annotation axis or function (as Jeni suggested with
> > foo/#psvi:type-definition in an earlier post), but I see no point in
> > limiting it to PSVI and PSVI only access as your reflect function
> > suggests.
> 
> I don't think that Henry was suggesting limiting it to PSVI -- he was
> just using examples from the PSVI (actually, they're from the basic
> Infoset, I think) because it saves him from making up anything.
> 
> I think that the basic point he makes -- that whenever someone adds
> something new to the Infoset they should also provide a standard XML
> representation of that -- is a very good one that would really support
> the idea of accessing annotations as a node set using an axis or
> function. Very cool.

Ehr, you're right, sorry, I was jumping to false conlusions, I think
I was distracted by this four letter acronym in the middle of the message ...
However, I think that no information other than the core infoset should be
accessible without qualified names.

Cheers,
David

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    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
  • XPath for Infoset extensions [was Annotations in XPath-NG?]
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  • Re: XPath for Infoset extensions [was Annotations in XPath-NG?]
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