On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:26:34 +0200, Oleg Tkachenko <> wrote:
> It would be really nice to have such streamable XPath subset strictly
> defined (and probably with different name). Many attempts to implement
> XPath in a streaming way, such as Microsoft's XPathReader [1] (which is
> actually used in Biztalk internally) are hardly widely usable primarily
> because of proprietary XPath subsetting.
This doesn't sound like too bad a job, but it's not worth it unless
people are willing to use and support it in their code. Obviously, a
streaming XPath subset is appropriate for use with streaming parser
APIs like SAX and STAX -- where else would it be useful? XML
networking? Search and indexing?
There's also the question of context -- would the only context be the
stack, or do people hope to have access to left siblings as well?
All the best,
David
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