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RE: Implementing " and ' in literals

Subject: RE: Implementing " and ' in literals
From: "Julian Reschke" <reschke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:19:09 +0200
RE: Implementing " and ' in literals
> > You seem to be missing the point completely. See my reply to David
> > Carlisle.
>
> No, the point is that you can't change a specification from one
> implementation. That's the entire HTML mess that XML was designed to
> avoid: implementors adding features whenever they wanted leading
> to a competitive race and total document inoperablility.
>
> The specification may not be perfect, but the solution is to update the
> specification, not to make a non conforming implementation.

Well, XPath knows about variable bindings, and using a variable it would be
possible to put "any" string into an XPath expression. The question is just
how to extend the language-dependant APIs to XPath so that you can actually
bind something to a variable name.


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