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   Re: [xml-dev] XPath for Infoset extensions [was Annotations in XPath-NG?

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"David Rosenborg" <darolst@pantor.com> writes:

> Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> 
> > John Cowan and I have been pushing around the idea that it should be a
> > requirement on 'official' infoset extensions that they come with a
> > serialisation.  I'd like to see this happen, for example along the
> > lines of the various reflections Richard Tobin and I have explored for
> > the PSVI.  It would be a simple step to allow XPaths to navigate
> > extensions via a pretend reflection.  All that's required is a
> > function 'reflect(property)', whose value would be a reflection of the
> > value of an infoset property of the current node.  So, for instance,
> > to access the appinfo annotation of the type used to validate an
> > 'apple' element child of the current node, you'd say:
> > 
> >   apple/reflect("type_definition")/annotation/appinfo
> > 
> > You could of course navigate the vanilla infoset this way.  The
> > equivalent of /*/apple/@banana would look like
> > 
> >   /property("document_element")/children/element[local_name="apple"]/attributes/attribute[local_name="banana"]
> 
> Yes, direct PSVI access would be one possible application of an annotation axis or function
> (as Jeni suggested with foo/#psvi:type-definition in an earlier post), but I see no
> point in limiting it to PSVI and PSVI only access as your reflect function suggests.

There was no implication of such a restriction -- the idea is the the
'reflect' function would give you access to _any_ infoset property
supported by your processor.

ht
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