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Alan Gutierrez wrote:
> Refuse? I don't mean to come across as obstinate. I've been up
> all night. Perhaps my tone is not what I would want it to be.
>
>
Don't take me wrong, this hasn't been intended as reproach :)
> As far as handling content, I'm not thinking in terms of
> fetching a nodes out of a tree, but in terms of capturing, and
> responding to event with event handlers.
>
> That's why I think there are two phases, defining the pattern
> matching langauge, and then, as a second step, trying to come up
> with a generic expression of capturing and replacing, or
> inserting. The former is useful as on its own, for XML event
> handling frameworks.
>
>
Perhaps, XPattern could be limited to the first step, as of now. We want
a common syntax for patterns to match against streams of events
representing XML documents. Once you have a match, you can replace,
insert, run templates, callbacks, whatever.
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Petr Cimprich
Ginger Alliance
www.gingerall.com
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