Re: Selectors: terminological: represents vs. selects or matches

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> 
> The Selectors spec says, "A Selector represents a structure." and then 
> proceeds to use the word "represents" throughout the document.
> 
> This language is not at all clear to me. While I can follow it, I think 
> the intent would be clearer if "represents" were replaced by "selects" 
> or "matches". e.g. in 6.5.1 "ID selectors match/select an element 
> instance based on its identifier."

The problem is that, as mentioned in a couple of places in the draft, 
Selectors can be used for more than just matching.

For example, you could have a DOM method:

   var x = document.createNodeFromSelector("a[href=foo][title=bar]");

...and then have that method return an element "a" that has two 
attributes, href and title. STTS uses this, for example.

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