xml-dev - Re: XML syntax for XPath?

[Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>]

Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>
> Yes, but it might be interesting to create an 'XPath parser' which reads
in
> XPath and spits out SAX events, making these critters a bit easier to
> process and transform internally.  Then maybe an XPath writer which takes
> those events and reports them as XPath again.

    So what you want is an XPath grove parser.
>
> If only I didn't have a firm January 1 deadline...

    There are 39 productions in XPath so developing the property set should
take just a few hours :-) The thought involves how to *prune* the XPath
grove into something more useful.

Jonathan Borden
The Open Healthcare Group
http://www.openhealth.org