Re: DOM 1 or DOM 2 analogs to MSXML3 extensions

Jiri Znamenacek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xml
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
William Edney wrote:
> Yep, and DOM Level 3 even goes further than Microsoft's stuff in 
> allowing you to have 'scalar' return values from an XPath expression 
> (Strings, Booleans or Numbers).
> Had to hack a nasty bit of XSLT to get the same functionality in IE...

<rant>
Well, I'd like to know what it is good for in browser environment. When 
I first saw DOM3 XPath I was amazed that it was possible to create maybe 
even more unuseable spec then XML-Schema. For the clients on the web of 
course. Well, I understand now that web clients are of no importants 
anymore.
</rant>

   JZ
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