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From: "Vadim Gritsenko" <vadim.gritsenko@verizon.net>
To: <cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Allowed Sitemap Constructs
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:46:11 -0500
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> From: Peter Royal [mailto:proyal@managingpartners.com]
> 
> On Monday 07 January 2002 11:33 am, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe repeating things already said but, now, is there a real
semantic need
> > of matchers *and* selectors?
> 
> A matcher is nothing more than a selector that operates on the
requested URI.

Matchers do operate on whatever you want: request parameters, request
attributes, session attributes, request headers, cookies, wind direction
and boss's attitude. Last two are not written yet though ;)
(same holds true for selectors)

> You are correct, there is not a great need for the duplication, other
than
> syntactical sugar, which is nice sometimes.

It's not even nice; it is better then nice. There are things out there
not
possible without selectors.

Vadim


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