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The XPointer element()
scheme is intended to be used with the XPointer Framework [XPtrFrame] to allow basic addressing of XML elements.
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This document is a Recommendation (REC) of the W3C. It has been reviewed by W3C Members and other interested parties and has been endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable document and may be used as reference material or cited as a normative reference from another document. W3C's role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention to the specification and to promote its widespread deployment. This enhances the functionality and interoperability of the Web.
This document has been produced by the W3C XML Linking Working Group as part of the XML Activity. It is intended to address a subset of the original XPointer requirements, and to serve, along with the accompanying XPointer Framework and XPointer xmlns() Scheme specifications, as a part of a fragment identifier syntax for the XML Media types.
Public comments on this Recommendation are welcome. Please send them to the public mailing list www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org (archive).
Information about implementations relevant to this specification and the accompanying XPointer element() Scheme and XPointer xmlns() Scheme can be found in the Implementation Report.
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