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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I am trying to execute the following string using IE5 XML DOM's selectSingleNode:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>TAG[@PATH = "C:\test.txt" ]</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>This doesn't work, even though XML DOM returns that exact value for the pattern: "TAG[0]/@PATH"</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Other queries work, as long as they don't have a colon in them.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I tried encoding the : and . with &#58; and &#46;. Didn't work.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I am currently using a work around. Any news on this problem?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Paul Prescod [<A HREF="mailto:paul@prescod.net">mailto:paul@prescod.net</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 11:45 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: SGML, XML and SML</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Len Bullard wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> suggested to the EDI committees that markup was preferable, it was</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> dimissed as an irrelevant text format. When I was at the PDES meetings</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> when SGML was first considered, it was only as a string alternative</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> to the somewhat byzantine document model they were building. No, Paul,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> two things made the EDI folks take it seriously: </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The "EDI folks" are not the drivers of electronic commerce. GM is</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>partnered with CommerceONE and Ford is partnered with Oracle. The EDI</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>people are merely falling into line.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> Common LISP comes to mind. S-expressions, as Dan Connoly told me, are</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> the highest form. Why not LISP? Well, because HTML wasn't written</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> in LISP. As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>LISP S-expressions have three problems:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2> * even more stigma than SGML</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> * as you say, angle brackets were king</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> * no schema language</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>But yes, if Microsoft had backed s-expressions, XML would not be where</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>it is today. And nobody would be whining that XML is way too large and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>complicated for many applications. That might be a good thing.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>DSSSL-style S-expressions would be MUCH better for representing property</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>relationships than XML is, and property relationships are pretty central</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>to e-commerce and all sorts of machine to machine communication.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>SML people: think on this.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-- </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Bart: Dad, do I really have to brush my teeth?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Homer: No, but at least wash your mouth out with soda.</FONT>
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