Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL, DocBook 5, and Xalan

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

In streaming mode, it's really hard to get XPath support built in. In 
tree mode, DOM Level 2 doesn't give you all the info you need to fully 
implement XPointer. Possibly you could do this with Xerces extensions to 
the DOM. XOM does provide full support for XInclude including XPointers 
(though not the xpointer scheme) because I built in the pieces that were 
missing in DOM, but that's not going to speed anything up or integrate 
that well with a pure Xerces chain.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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