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----- Original Message ----- From: "Leigh Dodds" <ldodds@i...> To: "xml-dev" <xml-dev@i...> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 4:50 AM Subject: RE: Xpath and DOM > > Actually, I would have preferred to have a small set of > > query mechanism independent API in the DOM API. > > You're right it would make sense to have it separate to > the DOM. I completely agree. The DOM is not "the" API for all XML standards, it is meant to be a foundation upon other W3C APIs can be built. The DOM extensions for individual specs might be trivial, e.g. the XSLT people might want to simply define a method such as [off the top of my head] transformNode(Node input, Node output, Node stylesheet) so that everyone implementing XSLT in a DOM-compatible system uses the same names. At the other extreme is SVG, which is defining a whole set of DOM-compatible interfaces to expose the higher-level semantics of SVG. XPath (either the WG or the user community) is free to do likewise. The DOM working group would much rather be a source of advice on how to make APIs that are DOM-compatible, platform neutral, vendor neutral, etc. than to be the ultimate standardization authority for XML APIs. On the other hand, if there are problems in DOM Level 2 that impede an implementation of XPath or a definition of simple XPath extensions, they should be reported to www-dom@w... RIGHT AWAY. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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