Re: [xml-dev] Concerned about the increasing reliance on XPath

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

On 09/05/2011 17:16, Stephen D Green wrote:
> Are they going to be aware of the
> huge difference it might have on the result of evaluating
> their XPath expressions against some XML which settings
> they use

whether they are using xpath or c# or python or whatever, then if they 
are using an IDE that fills in some blanks and defaults some values, 
they should be aware that those values may affect the result, yes.

The fact that it's not always easy to see the settings is a problem, but 
not one directly related to the subject line of the thread.

David


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