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Re: sub-tree filtering proposals



On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:23:46AM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
 
> I think the WG is still split on this point.
> I agree with Phil.  We will have a lot of variance
> between minimal subset and full Xpath, and application
> writers will have difficulty managing this variance.
> If we had mandatory subtree plus optional full Xpath,
> there is less variance possible (just 2 choices: full 
> subtree, full Xpath).

subtree filter + full XPATH = 2
XPATH subset   + full XPATH = 2

 
> Or we could make both filtering mechanisms optional and
> let the market decide which ones are useful.  

The market will decide anyway. But making both filtering schemes
optional just means the mandatory is no filtering (kind of introducing
a third option and I bet this is what applications end up doing -
sucking the whole thing and running xslt (which uses xpath) locally.

I tend to agree with Phil that agreeing on a single approach would
indeed by the best approach. I probably differ with him (not sure 
though) that XPATH is the right way to go. Probably the solution
is indeed XPATH or no filtering at all.

/js

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