XPointerLib 
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Useful Links
Amuse your friends and neighbors with your knowledge of acronyms. Here we go.
XPCOM
XPCOM stands for Cross-Platform Component Object Model. I think.
- XPCOM chapter from O'Reilly's open source Mozilla development book. Unfortunately, the code it provides for a sample JavaScript component doesn't work. Nevertheless, the actual prose explanations are worth the price of admission.
- Mozilla code includes a sample XPCOM object. It was still pretty obtuse to get it up and running, so I wrote an explanatory page outlining the process.
- reference for Components object. This is swell.
- XPIDL: (compiler for IDL interface-definition files) command line syntax, IDL author's guide
XPointer
...is built on top of XPath. If you want to learn XPointer, do yourself a gigantic favor and read the XPath specification first. It's exciting; I promise. Kinda.
- XPath specification
- XPointer specification
- My quick patching together of the XPath and XPointer grammars into one full-blown grammar for XPointer