Re: [xml] Streaming XPath restrictions in libxml2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:15:21AM -0700, James Dennett wrote:
> Daniel Veillard [veillard redhat com] wrote:
> >   of course only forward. Again subset needed for XSD. See the XSD
> spec.
> > It was mostly designed as an internal feature, the driver was that
> spec.
>
> It's such a useful feature that it would be valuable if an interface
> specification could be written, though even if someone (<hides/>) steps
> up to do that then we might need to recognize that this could be more
> volatile than the interfaces which are implementations of mainstream
> standards.

It is written:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#Selector
as well as production 
  [7] Path ::= ('.//')? ( Step '/' )* ( Step | '@' NameTest )

Daniel

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