I realize this is not quite the right forum for this but this is the
XML-related forum I follow and I figure y'all will know the answer:
1. Can someone confirm or deny that there is no generally-available,
open-source library that implements XPointer processing? I've looked and
couldn't find anything, although I'm not sure my search was exhaustive.
Over the weekend I started implementing parsing of basic XPointers in
Java (I use jaxen to actually resolve the XPointer against a DOM) but I
don't want to spend more time on it if there's something already out
there. If there's not then I'll try to complete my code and contribute
it somewhere (the Jaxen project seems like an appropriate home, if
they'll have it).
2. I'm looking for an implementation of the isNameChar() method in Java
1.3. I found references to it using Google but the links to the
implementing libraries were broken and I couldn't find it poking around
on the Sun or Apache sights. Am I missing the obvious? Is there, again,
an open-source implementation for this basic functionality somewhere?
The XSLT connection here is that the work I'm doing to implement
XPointer could be exposed as an XSLT extension, at least for Saxon (it's
the only engine I've ever written extension functions for). It's already
more complete than my cheap XPointer implementation using XSLT directly
(see the sample XInclude code I contributed to Dave Pawson's FAQ).
Thanks,
Eliot
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