xml-dev - Re: XPointer question

[Masatomo Goto <gotou@flab.fujitsu.co.jp>]

Hello, 

At 12:50 98/10/30 +1100, Philip Rutherford wrote:
> Does anyone know how to specify elements relative to the current element
> using XPointer.
> For example in the following XML:
> 
> <x href="child(1)">
>     <y></y>
> <x>
> 
> Does child(1) refer to <y></y> or does it refer to the first child of
> the whole document?

If element <x> is a simple link and 'inline' attribute is 'true', you can 
point element <y> by specifying like following:

 <x href="#origin()">
    <y></y>
 </x>

For more detail, 

 <x xml:link='simple inline='true' href='#origin()'>
    <y></y>
 </x>

But this representation is no meaning  because inline resource is also
the same element <y>.

And, as shown above my example, before specifying XPointer, you must write
a connector(# or |).  Unless, that string is recognized as a URI. See XLink
draft '2. Locator Syntax'.


 - Masatomo Goto


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Masatomo Goto <gotou@flab.fujitsu.co.jp> 
Information Service Architecture lab.
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
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