On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 14:51 +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > One of the reasons why that initialization of the context is not > specified in the XPath standard is due to the fact that the standard was > done with the intent to be reused (by XPointer/XLink and XSLT) and we > didnt really expected it to be used as is...
It's been improved a lot for XPath 3 - this is one of the reasons the spec is so much larger, that it has been made more precise. If you're looking at the xpath stuff in xmllint, by the way, it could really use an option to bind a URI name to a prefix... (I am too maxed out to send a patch, I'm sorry - maybe in August) Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml