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On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 08:13 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:05:54 -0700, Uche Ogbuji
> <uche.ogbuji@f...> wrote:
> 
> > This module takes an XPattern (e.g. "/xbel/folder/bookmark") and
> > generates a state machine which can be plugged into any regular SAX
> > handler. 
> 
> XPattern is a restricted subset of XPath?  If so, it sounds like a good idea.

O yes, otherwise the idea wouldn't be very practical.

Interesting stat: 4Suite implements XPath and XPattern largely
separately.  Our XPattern implementation is a single file of some 500
lines of Python.  Our XPath implementation runs to over ten files of
similar length.


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Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
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