Re: Using XPointer with Perl

Hi,

I am trying to understand XPointer, what it is for etc. Is seems that
http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/ is the current version. Do you
point to the old version from 2000/2001, because this one seems to be
used by Gnome?

best
Maurice

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Deyan Ginev
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> The XPointer[1] specification has been around for a long while now and I
> am supervising and working on a set of projects (BSc, MSc and PhD theses
> within my research group) which need XPointers in order to perform
> fine-grained spotting on an XML corpus of mathematical texts.
>
> Probably recently, the Gnome project has added XPointer support for its
> libxml2 library[2] and I would really love to have that available as an
> extension to Perl's XML::LibXML. I have already developed a large
> architecture in Perl, which will act as a skeleton to the rest of the
> projects we are planning to carry out.
>
> Is anyone aware whether such an effort has been started, or whether
> there are any alternatives? I am not sure I would be the right person to
> contribute an XPointer library to XML::LibXML and I also would really
> like to avoid changing to another programming language.
>
> Thank you for any information and hints!
>
> Greetings,
> Deyan
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xptr
> [2] http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xpointer.html
>
> --
> Deyan Ginev, Jacobs University Bremen,
> http://kwarc.info/people/dginev
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