xpath issue for websites that update often

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xpath issue for websites that update often #2

Open pradyumnat opened 10 years ago

pradyumnat commented 10 years ago

Sweeting the headline at https://news.google.co.in/ which changes all the time will make my sweet point at a newer(different) headline.

ecthiender commented 9 years ago

Details: text annotation uses xpath to refer to the HTML element being annotated. But in frequently updating websites (like news, feeds etc.), the content inside that HTML element will change, making the annotation point to wrong content.

salus-sage commented 9 years ago

News and feeds type of content already seems to have a lot of meta data describing the semantics of those elements. Should we still need annotations for such services? And more over they are always pointing towards the main content, and i understand annotation is for content than to content pointers ;)