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As far as I am aware, XPointer is not being pursued either by standards groups or by implementors. Regards, Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay > -----Original Message----- > From: Piotr Bański [mailto:bansp@o2.pl] > Sent: 29 July 2009 11:33 > To: XML Developers List > Subject: XPointer string functions -- abandoned? > > Dear All, > > This is inspired by the exchange I've just seen on the Gnome > XML list, forwarded below. > > My question is: how 'exotic' (or plainly thoughtless) are we > in relying on the development of, and support for, XPointer > technology for the description of linguistic resources? I > know of the permanent temporariness of the xpointer() part of > the XPointer framework, but I've always been hoping that > things would move on in this area, eventually. > And now Daniel Veillard's remark below has struck me as > somewhat ominous. I made a quick search for "xpointer" in the > xml-dev archive on my disk, and it hasn't yielded much, > contrary to what I expected. > > Should I slowly prepare myself to abandon all hope? It's such > a useful mechanism for addressing bits of text that you want > to describe in a remote/stand-off fashion (whereby, in a > linguistic corpus, you keep the raw text untouched, and > merely address spans of it (tokens, phrases, sentences, etc.) > from another XML file; more details and URLs buried below). > > Thanks! > > Piotr > > -------- Original message -------- > Subject: Re: [xml] patch to XPointer -- any plans? > Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:14:23 +0200 > From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> > To: Adam Przepiorkowski <adamp@ipipan.waw.pl> > CC: xml@gnome.org > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:55:10AM +0200, Adam Przepiorkowski wrote: > > > > Are there any plans to apply the patch submitted as a comment to: > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563562 > > > > to the main distribution? > > I had no time until now to work on libxml2 maintainance, > I'm looking at bugs with patches now > > > Is there are any work on the issues listed in: > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583442 > > I'm not sure I will have time, XPointer seems a kind of > abandonned by the industry and W3C, so somehow I wonder if > it's worth the effort, I will have a quick look if it's > something obvious. > > Daniel > > -- > Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit > http://xmlsoft.org/ > daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine > http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization > library http://libvirt.org/ > _______________________________________________ > xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ > xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml > > > ______________________________________________________________ > _________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by > OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To > minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: > http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php >
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