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One of Fielding's criticisms seems ill-judged: 4) focuses on mechanical identification of XML elements (fragile and media-type-specific) rather than the content (section heading, paragraph number, paragraph text, etc.). since XPointer is meant to be used on documents that don't necessarily have sections and paragraphs. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> To: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:31 PM Subject: Roy Fielding on XPointer > While I've been testing the limits of XPointer's scheme capabilities, > Roy Fielding (of TAG, REST, and Apache fame) has been having some rather > severe doubts about XPointer itself: > > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/2002OctDec > /0039.html> > > "I made the mistake of reading this specification today.... In short, > these things are not suitable for use with URIs and should not be > recommended by the W3C."
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