[tei-council] XPointer working group

[Gabriel Bodard]

The XPointer ad hoc working group (myself, Martin, Piotr, Laurent, Syd 
Baumann and Hugh Cayless) is using the old "Stand-off markup" mailing 
list (archives at 
<http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A0=TEI-SOM>) to discuss 
possible approaches to making TEI XPointer schemes more useful. Possible 
recommendations at the end of the day might include:

  * completely abandon XPointer and recommend (or develop) some other 
scheme;
  * drop most of the obscurer functions and keep only xpath() and/or 
xpath2()
  * leave everything alone, but possibly do something about improving 
the implementation

I have asked the workgroup to come up with a self-imposed deadline to 
report back to Council.

G

-- 
Dr Gabriel BODARD
(Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy)

Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
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