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From: Peter van Hardenberg <pvh@uvic.ca>
Subject: Re: Plugins: Pseudo-fun.
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:20:13 -0800
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On November 10, 2005 04:36 am, Peter Foldiak wrote:
> On Thursday 10 November 2005 12:26, PFC wrote:
> > > book/chapter[3]/paragraph[2]
> >
> > I'd rather nitpick this to be :
> >
> > book/chapters/3/paragraphs/2
>
> You are probably right, your version fits the Unix syntax and Hans' syntax
> better. The first version was suggested only to be compatible with XPath
> syntax (so that you could use XPath for the whole filesystem, not just
> within a file [again, blurring the "file" boundary]). I don't know how
> important that would turn out to be.   PF

PF, I intend to work on a(n inefficient) proof-of-concept xPath shell once 
this attribute notation / storage mechanism is finished.

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Peter van Hardenberg (pvh@pvh.ca)
Victoria, BC, Canada