As the W3C Linking Candidate Recommendation phase progresses,
Daniel Veillard has sent a
request
for implementations and Eve Maler
proposed a slight update to XPointer to allow addressing multi-rooted
external parsed documents.
In his post, Daniel Veillard reminds us that:
This stage [Candidate Recommendation] is dedicated to implementors,
and the specifications are allowed to pursue their way toward the final
Recommendation status only if the prerequisite of implementability have been verified.
Daniel Veillard, co-chair (with Eve Maler) of the XML Linking Working Group also
maintains the list of the public implementations on the
Working Group public page.
Eve Maler has sent a proposal to generalize the XPointer "child sequence" addressing
form, and allow addressing multi-rooted external parsed entities.
One of the 3 addressing schemes (together with the "bare names" and
"full XPointer" schemes), the "child sequence" scheme specifies target
nodes through their sequence such as: "/1/2/5/14/3".
The current release of the specification specifies that the first
position in a sequence should be 1 since any well-formed XML document has single root.
The new proposal, which followed a
comment
from Mike Kay mentioning that XPath allows the definition of access paths
to multi-rooted XML fragments, would remove this restriction.
Comments should be sent to the www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org mailing list.
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