Re: [CSS21] New Candidate Recommendation - suggested correction to grammar for 'combinator'=whitespace

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:37:28 -0400 Message-ID: <46A6FDB8.9020205@inkedblade.net> To: Cecil Ward <cecil@cecilward.com>, www-style@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Wednesday, 25 July 2007 07:40:52 GMT

Cecil Ward wrote:
> I wish to suggest that the Appendix G Grammar be corrected to avoid the difficulties in   interpreting whitespace as a combinator within selectors.
> 
> The production for "combinatory" currently reads:
> 
> combinator
>   : PLUS S*
>   | GREATER S*
>   | S
>   ;
> 
> I suggest this needs to be amended to read
> 
> combinator
>   : PLUS S*
>   | GREATER S*
>   | S+
>   ;
> 
> CSS3 seems to agree.

Thanks! I've added your comments to the issues list.
   http://csswg.inkedblade.net/spec/css2.1#issue-5

~fantasai