xpointer

Using XLink to refer to nodes within same document

The general gist of a simple XLink to another node in the same document seems to be: <root xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"&gt; <firstChild id="ID1" /> ... <ref xlink:href="#ID1" /> </root> Without using XPointer or XPath, is this as much as you can do with XLink? Could you do an XLink which, say, referred to a customI...

What's the point (no-pun) of XPointer ranges?

XPointer spec talks about ranges that, as far as I understand, mean you can target two nodes in an XML document and get everything in between them or something. Do people really use this? What is it useful for? ...

XPointers in SVG

I've been trying to get XPointer URIs working in an SVG file, but haven't had any luck so far. After trying something more complicated and failing, I simplified it down to just referencing an ID. However, this still fails. The spec seems pretty clear about this implementation: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/struct.html#URIReference I found ...

PHP DOMXml XPath of recursive Xpointer

My xml document reflects an Object. as referential Recursion is possible in objects and arrays. I need to reflect that in reproduced XML Structure too. Currently I am using Unique IDs to identify each node separately and a node like <recursion refer="IDREF"> and specifying the ID of the referenced Element. But in This way I need My Own C...