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From: Oleg Paraschenko <usenet@---------.--->
To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@--------.--->
Date: 2/1/2005 12:32:00 PM

Hi Eric,

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:29:51 +0100
Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...> wrote:

> Hi Oleg,
> 
> ...
> 
> I like the way you've preferred to match the /bin directory on the
> /bin XPath instead of using some kind of /directory[@name="bin"]
> convention...

  Many XPath tutorials say that "the basic XPath syntax is similar to
filesystem addressing." I decided it was good to keep the analogue.

> 
> However, I am wondering how you deal with filenames that are no valid
> XML names (or that contain colons)...
> 
> Can you elaborate on that point?

  The underlying library allows to have anything as XML name, so there
are no problems with the virtual XML tree. More, the name of a file is
duplicated in the "name" attribute, so you can put a test for name into
a predicate: /*[@name='lost+found'].

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eric
> 

-- 
Oleg

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