- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:59:28 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: Dave Massy <Dave.Massy@microsoft.com>, "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>, Chris Wilson <chris.wilson@microsoft.com>, Tina Duff <tinad@microsoft.com>
On Dec 19, 2006, at 21:50, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:35:17 +0100, Dave Massy > <Dave.Massy@microsoft.com> wrote: >> For example if we map html as the prefix for XHTML in our document >> then we’d write it like: >> <html:table><html:tr><html:td></html:td></html:tr></html:table> >> But then we can write a selector such as: >> “h|table > h|tr > h|td” >> With a NSResolver that maps h to the same namespace as the html in >> the primary document. This seems potentially confusing. > > This is similar to how CSS and DOM Level 3 XPath deal with it. It > allows scripts to be written independently from the markup. Seems > useful to me. Not only is it useful but any other way of doing is radically useless. The whole point of prefixes is the indirection. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Change is inevitable except from a vending machine.
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