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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:58 PM, James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> wrote: My two satang's worth on this is that XPath 1.0 is already fairly micro. For me (and I am admittedly biased) the natural MicroXPath is XPath 1.0, with its namespace treatment adjusted to be consistent with whatever MicroXML does. For example, if MicroXML takes the approach of allowing prefixes but not giving any special meaning to namespace declarations, then MicroXPath would just match prefixes and treat namespace declarations as attributes. In fact, since XPath 1.0 is defined in terms of its data model, this adjustment can (all/mostly?) be handled by specifying an appropriate mapping from the MicroXML data model to the XPath 1.0 data model, without changing the semantics of XPath 1.0 itself. I agree with the above until the last point. I also believe that the "streamable" subset of XPath 1.0 is useful, though of course people establish such a subset in several ways. I'd say XSLT 1.0's pattern language comes close enough for most uses.
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