• To: "Garland foster" <garland_foster@s...>
• Subject: Re: Question for the XPath and DOM folks
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:00:18 -0600
• Cc: "Uche Ogbuji" <uche.ogbuji@f...>, "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from "Garland foster" <garland_foster@s...> of "Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:26:08 -0300." <030101c2302b$ae5c3280$c000a8c0@salutia>
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> Xpath queries with side-effects to a DOM tree ?

Umm.  No.  When did I say that?  It's meaningless.  XPath is read-only.

> Please don't even mention it
> :-)
> As a developer I'd prefer text-normalizing the DOM tree before applying an
> Xpath query.

This is pretty much what I was saying: the DOM binding to XPath would do the 
normalization and other mutation.  Not XPath itself, of course.  Mind you, 
there is more to the mutation than just text normalization: there is entity 
reference flattening, notation and doctype node elimination, attribute child 
node elimination, etc.  I hope you're not saying you'd want to do all this by 
hand, "As a developer"?


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