- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 10:30:37 +0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 14:08 21/05/97 -0500, David Durand wrote: >At 11:16 AM +0700 5/19/97, James Clark wrote: >>Either we have sub-element addressing or we don't. >> >>- If we do, then we can just count/search all the data character children or >>descendants of an element: pseudo-elements aren't essential. > >Yes, but it you use empty tags as separators (line TEI's "milestone tags"), >then you can't address the things between the tags by counting. > >>- If we don't have sub-element addressing, what's the use of being able to >>address a pseudo-element if you can't address inside it? >If you want to use separators. But surely the content between the empty elements may use tags, which will mean it's not necessarily a single pseudo-element, so pseudo-elements won't help. Isn't this exactly the sort of thing spans are intended for? James
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