- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 06:17:20 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > """A type selector represents an instance of the element type in the document > tree."""[1] > > Shouldn't that be something along the lines of: > > # ... represents all instances of the element ... > > Same for the example. No, it represents an instance. The instance might be a particular element being examined (in the case of CSS, e.g.), or it might be all of the instances (in the case of getElementsBySelector, e.g.), or it might be a hypothetical element that does not yet exist (in the case of expressions on the RHS of an STTS rule, e.g.). > """A namespace prefix that has been previously declared ..."""[2] > > Shouldn't it be left to the language using Selectors which prefixes are > in scope? Yes; the sentence you quote does not disagree with this (it's the language using Selectors that defines if the prefix is "previously declared" in that context or not). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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