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List:       xerces-j-dev
Subject:    Re: support for xpointer
From:       Michael Glavassevich <mrglavas () ca ! ibm ! com>
Date:       2013-03-01 17:00:46
Message-ID: OF46A05C5B.D4187CFB-ON85257B21.005C3486-85257B21.005D73B5 () ca ! ibm ! com
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Hi Philippe,

Philippe.Favrais@continental-corporation.com wrote on 01/03/2013 11:22:41 
AM:

> Hi Michael, 
> 
> What would you recommend me if i want to be able to "xpoint" 
> elements or attributes with an approach close to xpointer scheme (xpath 
like)?

My impression of XPointer (which could be wrong) is that it didn't really 
take off in the industry. The xpointer() scheme never became a W3C 
Recommendation, meaning the W3C has not endorsed it as a standard. Given 
that it's still a working draft and hasn't been updated since 2002 I'd 
consider it abandoned at this point from a standardization perspective.

I think someone defined an xpath() scheme as an alternative to xpointer() 
but I haven't looked at it and I'm not aware of where it might be 
supported.

> Is it possible to extend the xpointer framework to extend xerces so 
> that it can handle different scheme than the one already implemented ?

It is technically possible to write more scheme handlers for Xerces.

> Is there other parsers supporting such xpath xpointer scheme ? 

I'm not aware of any.

> kind regards 
> Philippe

Thanks.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Technologies and WAS Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org


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