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At 10:36 AM 12/26/00 -0800, Michael Smith wrote: >You probably already know this, but Mike Kay says in his XSLT book >that "in the very early drafts, the syntax for writing what are now >XPath expressions was also expressed in XML" -- so it might be >worthwhile to look at those "early drafts" if they're still available. The more I learn, the more I forget... >The single example (p. 33) he provides is an XML-syntax equivalent for >the XPath expression 'select=/book/author/first-name': > ><select> > <path> > <element type="book"> > <element type="author"> > <element type="first-name"> > </path> ></select> > >...definitely a bit more verbose. Yes, but it might be interesting to create an 'XPath parser' which reads in XPath and spits out SAX events, making these critters a bit easier to process and transform internally. Then maybe an XPath writer which takes those events and reports them as XPath again. If only I didn't have a firm January 1 deadline... Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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