Subject: RE: [xsl] Clark notation in XPath From: "James Anderson" <janderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 18:11:56 +0200 |
hello; cl-xml has had a reader macro for that pretty much since the day it appeared. such expressions (without respect to the particular {} syntax) make coding a lot easier. life gets very easy if one relaxes it a bit, to interpret the namespace designator via a dynamic binding mechanism which recognizes a prefix if in the appropriate context and treats namespace names as bindings which have indefinite extent. ... > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 21.58 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [xsl] Clark notation in XPath > > > I have thought for a long time that it would be a good idea to allow such a > notation (a) in source XML, (b) in XPath expressions, and (c) in the lexical > space of the xs:QName data type; but I haven't had much success in > persuading anyone. > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joe Fawcett [mailto:joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: 02 October 2005 19:08 > > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [xsl] Clark notation in XPath > > > > Dear All > > > > I was talking to someone at Microsoft last week about greater > > adoption of XML in > > general and some of the things people struggle with. > > > > One idea was to allow Clark notation when doing searches on > > documents as > > developers seem to struggle with the idea that that don't > > need to know the > > actual prefix used in a document. > > > > Let's say I have in memory a document that has all elements in the > > http://myDomain.co.uk/namespaces/ns1 namespace. > > I can select an element using the xpath: > > > > MyDom.select("{http://myDomain.co.uk/namespaces/ns1}myElement") > > > > Of course this is not standard but I'm sure similar ideas > > have been mooted in > > the past so I'd appreciate your comments. > > > > Joe
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