Re: XSLT 1.1 comments

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:28:58PM -0700, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> > FWIW, practically every case I see a user using XSLT with *:script, it is
> > because what they really wanted was a way to do XPath from their favorite
> > language, and they thought XSLT was the only way to programatically
> > manipulate node-sets accessed via XPath.
> 
> I do agree with Joshua's sentiment.

  Time has come to add XPath support at the DOM level. Check

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Requirements/#Level-3-LS-Other-Requirements

4.4.4.3 Document Fragments

"XPath should also be considered as a way to identify XML Document
fragments to load."

  Maybe a bit of lobbying or help to the people in the DOM group
would be the right way.

Daniel

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