- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:21:32 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 08:20 AM 12/17/96 -0800, Jon Bosak wrote: >Allow me to wallow in ignorance a bit further. I'm finding it hard to >visualize a situation in which I would want to address something based >on pseudo-element relationships rather than "genuine" tree >relationships. It's easy to imagine cases where I would want to refer >to the TITLE descendant of my ancestor CHAPTER, for example, but I >have never wanted to refer to the third linefeed in an element. No, but maybe to the "third node" in an element. If a linefeed is a node, your count will be different than if it is not. For instance, maybe you want a bullet on the "first" sub-element of a list item (usually a <paragraph>, but perhaps occasionally a <note>). <UITEM> <P>Foo</P> <note>Bar</note> </UITEM> Is that node the whitespace before the paragraph, or the paragraph itself? Despite the hand-waving about the "stylesheet can handle it", I think it would be a constant annoyance. Paul Prescod
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