Re: [xml] why xmlNodeSet in xpath and xpathInternal?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:17:59PM +0900, Kang Jeong-Hee wrote:
> Hi.
>
> implementing NamedNodeMap and NodeList for http://gybe.sf.net/dominigue/,
> finally found xmlNodeSet is already implemented in libxml.
> libxml is likewise a good friend of xml world. :)
>
> but, xmlNodeSet and its APIs are spread over xpath and xpathInternal.
> I don't know what's difference between xpath and Internal.

  Simply that the first one exports more general APIs than the second.

> but why in xpath, not in tree?
> after brief eye-rolling, xmlNodeSet APIs do not invoke xpath-something,
> does it?

  The notion of nodesets is defined in the W3C XPath 1.0 Recommendation
and libxml2 implementation is conformant to that definition. 
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#node-sets

Daniel

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