Re: Using XPointer with Perl

Hi Maurice,

My mistake, I was in a hurry so I took the first spec from the google 
search result, assuming it is the updated one. Indeed, one should read 
the most recent version of the XPointer spec.

Sorry for the confusion,
Deyan


On 09/30/2010 03:06 PM, Maurice Mengel wrote:
> 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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