Re: Does it make sense to work only with strings?

  Hello Dmitry,

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:49:42 +0300
"Dmitry Lizorkin" <[email protected]> wrote:

...
> 
> I believe it useful to make SXPath consistent with the SXML
> Specification ...

  Nice to hear it.

> and thus make SXPath consider non-string attribute
> values and text nodes as a correct situation.
> 
> I modified the function "sxml:string-value" and committed the file
> "sxpath-ext.scm" to SSAX CVS on SourceForge.

  Thank you, it works.


> ...
> To elaborate, it may also be reasonable to map the XPath node test
> "text()" not to
>    (ntype?? '*text*)
> as it is currently mapped in SXPath, but to
>    (ntype?? '*data*)
> in order to be able to extract non-string attribute values and text
> nodes properly with SXPath. Does anyone has any objections to making
> such a change in SXPath?

  No, I'm not against.

> 
> Dmitry
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Oleg


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