RE: [xml-dev] ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer

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Julian Reschke <>
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2002-10-28T07:53:44Z
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RE: [xml-dev] ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer
> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 1:00 AM
> To: Julian Reschke; 
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] ANN: xpath1() scheme for XPointer
>
>
> At 3:01 PM +0100 10/27/02, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> >IMHO: it can be a resource without an URI actually been assigned
> to it. The
> >essential thing is that you *could* assign that URI.
>
> OK. That makes some sense. What do you mean by the word "could"? Doie
> sit require that we could use existing schemes and syntaxes to assign
> a URI? or merely that such a scheme is conceivable?

IMHO: the latter. Such as

after-x-include:(escapedURI)

> For example, in an analogous situation, would it be OK to consider a
> particular group of frames with particular documents in each frame a
> resource, even though there's not as yet any URI that can point to
> them? (I'm thinking pre-XFrames here.)

I think so. For instance, it shouldn't be hard to come up with a URI scheme
that would describe the individual frames and their relationship.

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