Simon St.Laurent has announced
an IETF
Internet-Draft defining a XPath based scheme to be used in the XPointer
framework that is simpler than the xpointer() scheme and more powerful than
the shorthand or element() scheme.
Split into four pieces, the last XPointer Last Call Working Drafts define
several XPointer schemes ranging from id based shorthand pointers to an
xpointer() scheme, which is a superset of XPath.
St.Laurent notes that there is a gap between the element() and the
xpointer() schemes, which his proposal fills with existing technology by
relying on XPath 1.0:
The xpath1() scheme strikes a balance between the simple
implementation but limited functionality of shorthand pointers and the
element() scheme, and the complex implementation but great capabilities of
the xpointer() scheme. Perhaps more importantly, it strikes that balance
using processing capabilities that are already widely deployed.
This work has no connection with the W3C Xlink WG:
This Internet-Draft has no connection to the W3C XLink WG except insofar
as it builds on the XPointer Framework and uses other W3C work as references.
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