Issue 8927: Xpath: (xtce-rtf)
Source: NASA (Mr. Kevin Rice, james.k.rice-1(at)nasa.gov)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
Severity: 
Summary: -- Xpath:  xpath is the XML answer to unix-style paths but includes MATCHING, the ability really to get some chunk of any XML document using an Xpath expression.   We should consider Xpath as the format for Refs... but there needs to be a technical debate.
 
 
"... A reference to a Parameter. Uses Unix ‘like’ naming across the
> SpaceSystem Tree (e.g., SimpleSat/Bus/EPDS/BatteryOne/Voltage). To
> reference an individual member of an array use the zero based bracket
> notation commonly used in languages like C, C++, and Java."

Resolution: 
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
July 6, 2005: received issue
Discussion: 

End of Annotations:=====
s is issue # 8927

Xpath:

-- Xpath:  xpath is the XML answer to unix-style paths but includes MATCHING, the ability really to get some chunk of any XML document using an Xpath expression.   We should consider Xpath as the format for Refs... but there needs to be a technical debate.
 
 
"... A reference to a Parameter. Uses Unix .like. naming across the
> SpaceSystem Tree (e.g., SimpleSat/Bus/EPDS/BatteryOne/Voltage). To
> reference an individual member of an array use the zero based bracket
> notation commonly used in languages like C, C++, and Java."



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