As far as I am aware, XPointer is not being pursued either by standards
groups or by implementors.
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piotr Bański [mailto:]
> Sent: 29 July 2009 11:33
> To: XML Developers List
> Subject: [xml-dev] XPointer string functions -- abandoned?
>
> Dear All,
>
> This is inspired by the exchange I've just seen on the Gnome
> XML list, forwarded below.
>
> My question is: how 'exotic' (or plainly thoughtless) are we
> in relying on the development of, and support for, XPointer
> technology for the description of linguistic resources? I
> know of the permanent temporariness of the xpointer() part of
> the XPointer framework, but I've always been hoping that
> things would move on in this area, eventually.
> And now Daniel Veillard's remark below has struck me as
> somewhat ominous. I made a quick search for "xpointer" in the
> xml-dev archive on my disk, and it hasn't yielded much,
> contrary to what I expected.
>
> Should I slowly prepare myself to abandon all hope? It's such
> a useful mechanism for addressing bits of text that you want
> to describe in a remote/stand-off fashion (whereby, in a
> linguistic corpus, you keep the raw text untouched, and
> merely address spans of it (tokens, phrases, sentences, etc.)
> from another XML file; more details and URLs buried below).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Piotr
>
> -------- Original message --------
> Subject: Re: [xml] patch to XPointer -- any plans?
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:14:23 +0200
> From: Daniel Veillard <>
> To: Adam Przepiorkowski <>
> CC:
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:55:10AM +0200, Adam Przepiorkowski wrote:
> >
> > Are there any plans to apply the patch submitted as a comment to:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563562
> >
> > to the main distribution?
>
> I had no time until now to work on libxml2 maintainance,
> I'm looking at bugs with patches now
>
> > Is there are any work on the issues listed in:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583442
>
> I'm not sure I will have time, XPointer seems a kind of
> abandonned by the industry and W3C, so somehow I wonder if
> it's worth the effort, I will have a quick look if it's
> something obvious.
>
> Daniel
>
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