Martijn Faassen at m.faassen@vet.uu.nl wrote:
What's the strategy behind the id notation approach to access? It's pretty unwieldy given that you must view the document's display in the management interface to see what ids are there, and ids change when the document is edited. Is there a way to use the tag names in a url to target particular parts of the document?
Hm, XMLWidgets may not do what you want exactly but it does allow a way to target tag names (and specific tags). Look it up at:
Thanks for the tip--I haven't had a chance yet to look at the examples, but I'll try to review it over the weekend. The release notes suggest that XMLWidgets may address some of my issues. After a little thought, the answer to my simplistic question above is that XML documents may (often) have repeating elements at a given level of the hierarchy. When that is the case, a url using element names will not be able to target a unique location in the document. Duh. It would still be interesting to consider using node ids that are a bit more informative than the current ones. Say, the tag name concatenated with the numerical position of the tag in the sequence of similar tags at that level. Jim ________________________________________________________________________ James H. Harrison, Jr., MD, PhD University of Pittsburgh Health System C920 PUH, 200 Lothrop Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213 jhrsn@pop.pitt.edu | voice: 412-647-5529 | fax: 412-647-9588 "If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself!!"-Norton Juster ________________________________________________________________________