On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
One thing we realized at that time is that XPath is good enough, even if
it seems to be adressing XML specifically, it has the concept of
"dimension" that can be extended to represent arbitrary aspects of
objects.
Hmm. Back in March, before I discovered that perl6 was actually far
enough along to start using a bit, I wrote an article which includes
information about what I do and don't like about XPath:
http://computerstuff.jdarx.info/content/treepath-universal-tree-navigation-language
It basically recommends that there be two path dialects, Complex
TreePath (which is basically XPath) and Simple TreePath (which is basically a
somewhat modified version of glob).
Now that Perl6 is in the mix, though, I think that the best way to do
it is to make roles that model eg. Nodes, Plexes (Documents), Elements, and
the like, and then have operators on them do all the work (like my idea of
using a slash for a combined feed and call code operator). I could be wrong,
but it seems to me that we could get something that's somewhat like XPath this
way, without having to worry about defining an XPath grammar or anything.
:)
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