On 2021-12-31, at 17:32, Ladislav Lhotka <ladislav.lho...@nic.cz> wrote: > > It means slightly more work for an XPath processor but is IMO considerably > more readable and less error-prone.
The original phrasing with ../../../../../ etc. is in conflict with the powerful maxim “let the computer do the counting” (remember 12HHello World in FORTRAN?). We had the same “relative-path” disease with the original use of (non-standard) relative JSON pointers in SDF. Going to (the standard) absolute ones helped a lot, but actually finding the right node would be even better — can’t be done in RFC 6901 JSON Pointers though. So my brain was just activated to this anti-pattern, and since XPath is infinitely more powerful than JSON Pointer, I just wanted to know how to avoid it. Thank you! Grüße, Carsten _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list netmod@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
