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[list4xt] Re: Support for omquery (XPath query)

Subject: [list4xt] Re: Support for omquery (XPath query)

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From: Dave Pawson (dave.pawson@virgin.net)
Date: 04/06/2000 - 07:38

     ... actualy, after thinking about this a bit more, I realized that
     grep-alike functionality could be provided with generation
     of the stylesheet on the fly ... One stylesheet produces
     another ( so <xsl:apply-templates select="..."> is generated )
     and then second stylesheet is applied.

Sounds very like Schematron from Rick Jelliffe?
http://www.ascc.net/xml/resource/schematron/schematron.html

     I'l write this stuff anyway in next 2 weeks, but maybe I'm reinventing
     the wheel here ?

the original reference (a guy from Japan?) does it for me.
I can pass in a path as param and have the response returned.
Have a look at it Paul.
I don't seem to have kept the

     I'm not sure about regular expressions at all. I can not imagine any
     usecase for regular expressions if the schema of XML file is
     reasonable.
     I mean that if some parts of the content are not already separated
     by markup ( this allows XPath to do everything ), trying to separate
     those parts with the help of regular expressions is a logical hack.
     Am I wrong?

     I'l be glad to get a usecase which will show that we need regexprs on
     a 'good' XML, because I may not see it ... Do you ?

There have been calls for it on the Mulberrytech list.

Regards, DaveP 

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