[OSC_dev] namespace best practice?

[Andy W. Schmeder]

On Aug 1, 2008, at 6:32 AM, mart wrote:

> thanks for your suggestion.
> one thing which came to my mind was:
> why not use Xpath as syntax base?

OSC predates the widespread popularity of the XML protocol suite;  
however if we were to re-invent the protocol today it would probably  
be based on one of the binary XML formats, and XPath would serve a  
similar role as does OSC pattern matching syntax.   However...  
possibly with some restrictions: OSC patterns are restricted  
considerably compared to XPath/XQuery, so they can be evaluated in  
bounded time (e.g., there is no backtracking, non-greedy qualifiers,  
etc).

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Andy W. Schmeder
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