[Bug 6777] In HTML documents, no-namespace expression must match http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml nodes

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6777





--- Comment #26 from Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@redhat.com>  2009-06-26 14:27:31 ---
> This issue is now addressed by HTML 5:
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#interactions-with-xpath-and-xslt
> (Implemented in Gecko and WebKit.)

I'm speechless.

You say that because you do not want to implement XPath 2.0, which solves your
problems, you want to fork the XPath standard by creating a new mode where name
tests have special-purpose semantics.

XPath 2.0 was published 23 January 2007, and is widely implemented. In June,
2009 you propose to create an incompatible version of XPath 1.0 and say that
web browsers must implement this instead.

I think the solution is to change your implementation to support the standards,
not to fork the standards to suit your implementation.


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