I guess the point around the XPath proposal has always been why don't we line up with an existing standard, even if we only select a subset of that standard. That way we get the best of both worlds -- we get just the features we want and we don't have to reinvent the wheel. Further, if at some point down the road we decide we want more powerful filtering/selection then we can go back to the trough and sip a bit more of the XPath juice.
With the approach I mention above the opportunity at least exists to attempt to use some existing tools and open source.
Regards, /gww
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> From: Andy Bierman [mailto:abierman@cisco.com]
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[lots of comments by Andy, Wes, Jeurgen, et. al.]