Re: [xml] xpointer range in attribute node

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:48:44PM -0000, Couch, PA (Philip) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to use libxml's xpointer implementation to locate ranges that are completely enclosed in 
> attribute nodes?

  From my recollection, no it's not possible. Attributes aren't represented
on screen and I thing strings in attribute values were not part of the
requirement of rendering selection in XPointer.

> Using libxml, I get empty location sets from xpointer expressions of the form:
>
> xpointer(string-range(//node/@attribute,"string",start,length))
>
> Thanks for any help that you may be able to give,
>
> Phil.

Daniel


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