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At 1:14 PM -0500 2/1/02, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 11:59, David G. Durand wrote:
>> If you want Xpointer killed, you can of course relax, because it
> > seems to be dying quickly.
>XPointer is a huge beast - a good candidate for a 2.0 spec, but enormous
>for a 1.0 spec. I'd be much much happier to see something smaller for a
>first round.
The chances of there ever being an XPointer 2.0 look very dim right
now. Conformance levels would be a good idea, perhaps.
I must say that much of the size of XPointer is due to unification
with XPath...
The best argument that I've seen for conformance levels is to make a
level that would be easy for streaming-only applications -- This
would include child sequences, ranges and labels, but eliminate
more-complex navigation that requires an implementor to either keep a
tree around or do some pretty clever preprocessing on the path.
I could (personally) lose a lot of the navigation features, but
without ranges, none of the applications that I have for Xpointer
will be accommodated. Given the number of XPath implementations,
though, I can't see XPointer as being that hard.
>I even hope that a simpler XPointer might return some life to the
>listless XLink.
XLink is going to stay listless until there's some version of
XPointer, that's for sure.
-- David
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