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Piotr Bański wrote: > 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. It depends on what you expect. I work regularly with a company that uses an XLink database as the core to its products, it uses XPointers all the time but entirely behind the scenes: applications programmers even never see them. The thing about XPointer is that it is fairly easy to get a resource, load it, and use the XPath to locate the node. But you only want to do that in order to do some application-specific functionality which is outside the realm of general purpose libraries. So there is little that general purpose libraries need to do. I wouldn't sweat it. If the syntax makes sense, use it. If something else makes more sense, use that. But there is no much general library support because it is almost trivial what needs to be done AFAICS. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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