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Subject: [xsl] Slightly OT: Java XPointer Impls and isNameChar() Impl?
From: Eliot Kimber <ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 14:29:10 -0500

I realize this is not quite the right forum for this but this is the XML-related forum I follow and I figure y'all will know the answer:

1. Can someone confirm or deny that there is no generally-available, open-source library that implements XPointer processing? I've looked and couldn't find anything, although I'm not sure my search was exhaustive.

Over the weekend I started implementing parsing of basic XPointers in Java (I use jaxen to actually resolve the XPointer against a DOM) but I don't want to spend more time on it if there's something already out there. If there's not then I'll try to complete my code and contribute it somewhere (the Jaxen project seems like an appropriate home, if they'll have it).

2. I'm looking for an implementation of the isNameChar() method in Java 1.3. I found references to it using Google but the links to the implementing libraries were broken and I couldn't find it poking around on the Sun or Apache sights. Am I missing the obvious? Is there, again, an open-source implementation for this basic functionality somewhere?

The XSLT connection here is that the work I'm doing to implement XPointer could be exposed as an XSLT extension, at least for Saxon (it's the only engine I've ever written extension functions for). It's already more complete than my cheap XPointer implementation using XSLT directly (see the sample XInclude code I contributed to Dave Pawson's FAQ).

Thanks,

Eliot
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