Re: XPath and Selectors are identical, and shouldn't be co-developed

* Yehuda Katz wrote:
>Most people would accomplish that using jQuery. Something like:
>
>var previous = $(current).closest("tr").prev()
>
>I'm not exactly sure what `current` is in this case. What edge-cases are
>you worried about when you say that the JavaScript is "quite involved"?

It is unlikely that your code is equivalent to the code I provided, and
sure enough, you can point out in all discussions about convenience APIs
that people could use a library. I don't see how that is relevant here.
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