Re: [xml-dev] XPointer crisis

[Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>]

On Friday 01 February 2002 02:41 pm, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   If you think that
>      #foo
> is simple and fast, yes in a very well defined context, in general
> it's an horrible solution, you have to rely on something outside the
> document itself to simply make that request. //*[@id=foo] at least
> can work directly on the document.

FWIW. This is why I disagreed with the bare names in XPointer. The 
only reason they might exist is to placate HTML folk, IMNSHO.