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RE: XPointer string functions -- abandoned?

  • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
  • To: 'Piotr Bański' <bansp@o2.pl>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:44:59 +0100

RE:  XPointer string functions -- abandoned?

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
> 
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