Re: [xml] XPointer problem

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

No reply in a week so I am reposting the message.  Daniel, can your
confirm that my understanding is correct and there is a buf in LibXML
imlementation?

Aleksey.

Aleksey Sanin wrote:

> Hi, Daniel!
>
> I am not sure but it looks like I found a small problem with XPointer
> implementation in LibXML: it looks like LibXML does not support
> multiple "xpointer()" parts as it is described in [1].
> It'll be great if you can take a look at this because I've looked at the
> xpointer.c (functions: xmlXPtrEval and xmlXPtrEvalXPointer) and it
> does not seem like there exists a quick and simple fix.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Aleksey.
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-xptr-20010911/#schemes
> -----
>
> However, in the absence of the DTD, it is not typically possible to 
> determine
> if an attribute is of type ID. An XPointer like the following, with 
> two parts,
> will have its first part fail if no DTD is available, but will have 
> its second part
> succeed if the desired attribute's name is id; note that the intent of 
> the second
> XPointer part is just an approximation of the first.
>
> xpointer(id("chap1"))xpointer(//*[ id="chap1"])
>
>
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