Hi Eric,
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:29:51 +0100
Eric van der Vlist <> wrote:
> Hi Oleg,
>
> ...
>
> I like the way you've preferred to match the /bin directory on the
> /bin XPath instead of using some kind of /directory[@name="bin"]
> convention...
Many XPath tutorials say that "the basic XPath syntax is similar to
filesystem addressing." I decided it was good to keep the analogue.
>
> However, I am wondering how you deal with filenames that are no valid
> XML names (or that contain colons)...
>
> Can you elaborate on that point?
The underlying library allows to have anything as XML name, so there
are no problems with the virtual XML tree. More, the name of a file is
duplicated in the "name" attribute, so you can put a test for name into
a predicate: /*[@name='lost+found'].
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
--
Oleg
