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  • Committer: Suren A. Chilingaryan
  • Date: 2009-04-09 03:21:08 UTC
  • Revision ID: csa@dside.dyndns.org-20090409032108-w4edamdh4adrgdu3
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 Extension of XPath suited for linking
 
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Functions
 
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 point()                selects the set of points of a node
 
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 here()                 - get location of the element containing current 
 
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                        XPointer
 
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 origin()               - get location where user initiated link traversal
 
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 start-point(location-set) - get start point of location set
 
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 string-range(XPath)    - find matching substring
 
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 range-to(XPointer)     - see examples
 
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Samples
 
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0.                                 URI
 
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  /                                                                 \
 
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  http://www.foo.org/bar.xml#xpointer(article/section[position()<=5])
 
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                            |         \                            /|
 
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                             \              XPointer expression    /
 
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                              \                                   /
 
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                                  XPointer fragment identifier
 
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 Points to the first five section elements in the article root element
 
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1. /descendant::text()/point()[position()=0]
 
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 Selects the locations right before the first character of all character data
 
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 nodes in the document. 
 
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2. /section[1] / range-to(/section[3])
 
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 Selects everything from the beginning of the first section to the end of the 
 
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 third.
 
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