hixie: XPath 1.0 legacy compatibility. (whatwg r3765)

hixie: XPath 1.0 legacy compatibility. (whatwg r3765)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.2934&r2=1.2935&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3764&to=3765

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2934
retrieving revision 1.2935
diff -u -d -r1.2934 -r1.2935
--- Overview.html 7 Sep 2009 10:00:36 -0000 1.2934
+++ Overview.html 7 Sep 2009 10:29:48 -0000 1.2935
@@ -8365,6 +8365,14 @@
    <li>The element has local name <var title="">local</var>.</li>
    <li>The element is in the <a href="#html-namespace-0">HTML namespace</a>.</li>
    <li>The element's document is an <a href="#html-documents" title="HTML documents">HTML document</a>.</li>
+  </ul><p>Irrespective of the requirements defined in XPath 1.0, a name
+  expression must not evaluate to matching a node when the following
+  conditions are all met:</p>
+
+  <ul class="brief"><li>The name expression has no namespace.</li>
+   <li>The expression is being tested against an element node.</li>
+   <li>The element is in no namespace.</li>
+   <li>The element's document is an <a href="#html-documents" title="HTML documents">HTML document</a>.</li>
   </ul><p class="note">These requirements are a <a href="#willful-violation">willful
   violation</a> of the XPath 1.0 specification, motivated by desire
   to have implementations be compatible with legacy content while

Received on Monday, 7 September 2009 10:30:44 UTC