• To: "'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@m...>,"'Uche Ogbuji'" <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Subject: RE: ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 18:18:14 -0000
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <p04330101b9e1dcde333f@[192.168.254.4]>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> OK, since you asked for it, here are some of the sections of XPath 
> and XSLT specs which I think only make sense if you understand the 
> input tree to have a direct connection to the actual XML document:


Perhaps I should ask for a vote: do people on this list prefer the
simple 3-page James Clark description of the XPath 1.0 data model, with
all these inherent ambiguities, or the complex 30-page committee-written
description of the XPath 2.0 data model, which attempts to eliminate all
such ambiguities by diving into layers of abstraction and formalism?

I get the impression you lot can't make your minds up.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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