On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:52:43AM -0000, Couch, PA (Philip) wrote: > Hi, > > I found that the XPointer scheme spec. is not too clear about this, except > that the last part relating to the string-range function reads: > > "...string-range is useful for locating ranges that are wholly enclosed in > other node types as well, such as attributes, processing instructions, and > comments" > > This lead me to hope that I could do this. I am working on the specification > of mappings from ontologies to XML schema, and the ability to point to > sub-strings in attribute values would be more than useful. I was confused > when I could not find a single example of this, since if it is useful to > point to sub-strings in an elements content, then it is likely to be useful > to be able to do the same for attribute values.
Please remember that XPointer was defined in tandem with XLink to improve document hypertext on an XML based Web. And since attributes are not displayed I don't think pointing within attrubutes was really a requirement from our charter point of view. But that's true for comments content too ... So I'm not 100% sure about XPointer and attribute content selection, sorry. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
