Re: [Exist-open] proposal: highlighting of matching attributes

[Ron V. d. B. <ron...@ka...>]

Hi all,

On 20/05/2011 12:57, Stefan Majewski wrote:
> Wouldn't it be possible to use xpointer [1]
>   for this? I'm not too familiar with xpointer, but I think the
> string-range and point function could be helpful, here. The proposed
> format of B2 reminded me of this, as it looks slightly similar to
> xpointer syntax. But then the gain is probably quite limited as xpointer
> is not exceptionally well supported in most implementations. I
> experimented a little with it for the linkage required for TEI standoff
> annotation with overlapping hierarchies across multiple files and it was
> not such a great experience. As most of the tools were not capable to
> fully exploit the possibilities of string-range I had to implement the
> used parts of xpointer myself, in the end.

My thought as well: I briefly considered this when thinking up a 
useable/ful format, but you'll end up with much more 
parsing/post-processing work, for just a simple bit of information. 
Looking at the XPointer spec again made me realize that I'm all for 
standards, though not for all of them ;-). (Now if I only knew 
/any/thing of Java I'd jump in immediately and try to implement it.)

Kind regards,

Ron