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Karl Waclawek wrote:
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> Uche Ogbuji wrote:
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>>> There's also the question of context -- would the only context be the
>>> stack, or do people hope to have access to left siblings as well?
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>> I'd say only the parent stack, or shallow but very wide documents become
>> resource hogs. An extension mechanism could allow implementations to
>> support sibling access, or perhaps that would be a matter of conformance
>> levels (a la DOM or XAPI).
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> Why not leave this to the application to decide.
> Just provide a hook for accessing context, but
> don't make a decision what to provide.
> Providing these hooks just on the parent stack
> should be sufficient, because at the parent level
> one can aggregate context as needed.
This sounds too processing-model-specific. I guess I started it by
saying "parent stack". Permit me to amend that to "ancestor axis".
I don't think that in a spec that is supposed to be cross-platform,
cross-platform, cross-toolkit, we can get away with specifying things in
terms such as "put a hook here". We'd have to define context in a
similar way to XPath's definition (though more restricted, naturally).
--
Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc.
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