On 2 Dec 2016, at 14:56, Sam Whited <s...@samwhited.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Tobias Markmann > <tmarkm...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> One approach would be requiring IDs on the tags you want to reference. This >> way the reference tag could simple refer to that ID, which naturally would >> be UUIDs. > > I like this; it's simple, easy to implement, and does no more than is > necessary while still being sufficiently powerful to acomplish the > task at hand..
I don’t see why the ids need to be UUIDs (indeed, it seems actively undesirable for them to be), but yes, referencing by id, or maybe by anchor seems sensible. >> Another would be XPath or XPointer to have the reference tag refer to the >> element from the root of the top-level-stanza. > > I don't want to have to pull in another huge dependency to all my > projects or write something to parse yet another simplified DSL. This > approach isn't something I'd want to implementl; I'm allergic to > dependencies. I think ‘allergic to dependencies’ is ever so close to NiH, but in this case I agree that an XPath/XPointer dependency is probably undesirable. I wouldn’t want to execute network-provided XPath expressions. /K _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org _______________________________________________
