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Karl Waclawek wrote: > > > Uche Ogbuji wrote: > >>> Why not leave this to the application to decide. >>> Just provide a hook for accessing context, but >>> don't make a decision what to provide. >>> Providing these hooks just on the parent stack >>> should be sufficient, because at the parent level >>> one can aggregate context as needed. >> >> >> >> >> This sounds too processing-model-specific. I guess I started it by >> saying "parent stack". Permit me to amend that to "ancestor axis". >> >> I don't think that in a spec that is supposed to be cross-platform, >> cross-platform, cross-toolkit, we can get away with specifying things >> in terms such as "put a hook here". We'd have to define context in a >> similar way to XPath's definition (though more restricted, naturally). > > > I am not sure then that attempting to define such a spec is very useful. We can agree to disagree on that point, then, I think. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use CSS to display XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss-i.html Full XML Indexes with Gnosis - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/08/py-xml.html Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286 UBL 1.0 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think28.html Use Universal Feed Parser to tame RSS - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipufp.html Default and error handling in XSLT lookup tables - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook.html A survey of XML standards - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand4/ The State of Python-XML in 2004 - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/10/13/py-xml.html
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