XML Pointer Language (XPointer)

W3C Working Draft 16 August 2002

This version:: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xptr-20020816/
Superceded by:: http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/; http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-element/; http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-xmlns/; http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-xpointer/
Latest version:: http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr/
Previous version:: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-xptr-20010911/
Editors:: Steven DeRose, Brown University Scholarly Technology Group; Ron Daniel Jr., Interwoven; Paul Grosso, Arbortext, Inc.; Eve Maler, Sun Microsystems; Jonathan Marsh, Microsoft; Norman Walsh, Sun Microsystems

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Abstract

This specification defines the XML Pointer Language (XPointer), the language to be used as the basis for a fragment identifier for any URI reference that locates a resource whose Internet media type is one of text/xml, application/xml, text/xml-external-parsed-entity, or application/xml-external-parsed-entity.

Status of this Document

This document has been superceded.

The design described in previous versions of this document has been factored into a basic framework (http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-framework/) which defines XPointer schemes and simple "barename" fragment identifiers, and three additional schemes: http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-element/, for addressing elements by their position in the document tree, http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-xmlns/, for binding namespace prefixes to namespace name and http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr-xpointer/, for full XPath-based addressing.

For information about the requirements that informed development of this specification, see http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-xptr-req.

A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/.