Hi Monty, Hi Tobias,

> On May 4, 2018, at 1:47 AM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
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>> On 04.05.2018, at 06:00, monty <monty2 at programmer.net> wrote:
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>> For Squeak (and Pharo and GemStone), the only actively-maintained, standards-compliant library I know of is the SmalltalkHub PharoExtras/XPath lib that I maintain, installable from the SM as "XMLParser-XPath".
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> I want to stress that monty's implementation (xml and xpath) is very good, feature-, test-, and code-wise.
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> Note that the xml lib is not a drop-in replacement for the XML stuff in Trunk, as some API got straightened out.
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> Maybe we should adopt the XML/XPath lib for trunk also. It makes talking to web resources that speak XML soooo much easier.

+1.  If you two are actively using it, the tests pass, and you think it the right thing to do, IMO you should just go ahead.

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> -t
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>> It's actually a from-scratch (except some tests) rewrite of the SM "XPath" lib. I rewrote it because it was too unstable (would infinite loop on certain inputs) and only implemented a small portion of the required functionality.
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>> My concern is that someone might install the older lib by mistake.
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>> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 at 12:36 PM
>> From: "Frank Shearar" <frank.shearar at gmail.com>
>> To: "Chris Muller" <ma.chris.m at gmail.com>, "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Please transfer ownership or make me a co-maintainer of the orphaned SM "XPath" project
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>> Be careful - there are multiple different XPath repositories lying around - there's one on GitHub, for example.
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>> frank
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>> On 2 May 2018 at 09:34, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com[mailto:asqueaker at gmail.com]> wrote:Normally only the original author can do that.  If they are no longer
>> available, I can add the 'Community Supported' tag, which would allow
>> you to create additional releases for that package, but not delete any
>> of the existing legacy Releases.
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>> Would that work for you?
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>>> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 10:39 PM, monty <monty2 at programmer.net[mailto:monty2 at programmer.net]> wrote:
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