176519 - Implement IETF's xpath1() XPointer scheme

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 182323

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[Marcus S]

Since Mozilla already has a XPath 1.0 implementation, it should be quite trivial
to add the XPointer scheme xpath1() as proposed by Simon St.Laurent. Another
easy feature for Mozilla ...

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

depends on bug 32832 ?

Comment 2

[Marcus S]

  Well, there is some dependency on XPointer, but not on the XPointer standard
by W3C in the sense that in order to implement the xpath1() scheme, there is no
need for all the schemes provided by the W3C XPointer standards. All we need is
the basic framework, and in that sense I believe we can just use the current
framework that is used with the FIXptr implementation.

  That is, even though we can use FIXptr[1] in today's builds (or at least we
could the last time I checked), but we do not have an implementation of
XPointer[2] working yet, the basic framework (that is, behaviour minus all the
syntaxes for the different schemes) used by the two is the same. Adding support
for IETF's xpath1() scheme has no dependency on all the schemes provided by [1]
or [2], and since we have a working implementation of XSL (which uses XPath), we
already have a working implementation of XPath 1.0, it should be minimal work
with minimal possibility of bug creation.
 [1]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/2001AprJun/att-0074/01-NOTE-FIXptr-20010425.htm
[2]http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr/
 

Comment 3

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

I actually have implemented this in other bug, marking this as dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 182323 ***