RE: OPINIONS WANTED: regexps in CSS?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org]On
> Behalf Of Frank Boumphrey
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 1:37 AM
> To: Ian Hickson; Bert Bos; www-style@w3.org
> Subject: Re: OPINIONS WANTED: regexps in CSS?

> This discussion has centered on the user, but remember the developer.
> One of the nice things in the XML spec was that it was stated
> "It shall be easy to write programs for XML"
>
> If regexp  becomes part of the CSS specification, then a whole new layer
of
> complexity is added to any program that is written for the standard, and
> automatically it means that only those companies that have the resources
can
> support them. That means that prices go up etc. etc.

Of course this is a very important point... So how about it? Can we hear
from some browser developers on this?

Braden