On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:47:49 PM UTC-5, Terje Norderhaug wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Phil Hagelberg 
> <ph...@hagelb.org<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > However, the likelihood that anyone else will come along in the future 
> > and name another library clj-xpath is basically nil in this case. 
>
> For standards/recommendations like xpath it would be preferable to 
> avoid that the first Clojure implementation coming along gets to 
> monopolize the name. In fact, I've been thinking for a while about 
> implementing an xpath library for Clojure, talking a different 
> approach than Kyle, as I've implemented XPath in the past in Common 
> Lisp as part of an XSLT processor/compiler used in my commercial 
> products. So I second the use of a group-id for clojure libraries that 
> use the name of a standard/recommendation in their name. 
>
>
Aside: perhaps you could instead use some other unique name for your 
project. Like xpathfinder or xml-strider or something?

---John

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