Re: Comments on NODAL paper, 14 June 2001 version

[Murray Altheim <murray.altheim@sun.com>]

Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
[...]
> > Another possibility for handling this (and it came up when I discussed
> > this with Doug on Tuesday) would be the liberal use of "path
> > functions" (a la XPath).  It would almost certainly be possible to
> > define functions (pluggable and well-defined) to access the "third
> > paragraph" and "second sentence" of a text block.  That way we
> > wouldn't have to worry about data model mapping (yet at least).
> 
> These are two names for the same thing.  Functions that know about
> "paragraphs" and "sentences" are implicitly working on another data model
> consisting of paragraphs and sentences.    (01)

One of the things that we ought to search around for, design, alter, etc.
would be some type of XPath/XPointer plug-in for Mozilla or Netscape. We
need this functionality (as do many people) and it would be a great 
contribution to the wider web community if we could figure out how to
deliver this. I'm hoping somebody else (such as someone already working
in Mozilla) might already have something in the works.    (02)

Murray    (03)

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Murray Altheim                         <mailto:murray.altheim&#x40;sun.com>
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