Re: A really micro schema language

I didn't mean to imply that this schema language would use CSS selectors.

My point was just that in cases where you want a standalone XPath-/CSS
selector-like language for MicroXML (eg in the context of a DOM), CSS
selectors would in my view be a good choice (mainly because of familiarity
to the average developer).

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:39 PM, James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> wrote:
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>> I'm not familiar with level 4.  Level 3 is the first level that has most
>> of the stuff that you really need.
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>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> On Dec 18, 2012 6:44 AM, "James Clark" <jjc@jclark.com> wrote:
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>>> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:35 PM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
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>>> >> You once said that you thought the appropriate MicroXPath was XPath
>>> 1.0,
>>> >> presumably modulo namespaces, PIs, etc.  Have you had any further
>>> >> thoughts about that?
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>>> > Though it pains me to say it, I suspect the most appropriate
>>> MicroXPath is CSS3 selectors.
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>>> > James
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>>> Out of curiosity - why do you specifically point to L3 above?  I'm
>>> wondering because some of the branches of this thread go off in directions
>>> which include symbols which have been potentially slotted for L4 and up...
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> Sorry, I didn't mean to take the above offlist... adding the group back.
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> Presumably the idea would just be to base it on the most robust CSS
> Selectors version and hopefully avoid any footguns that would prevent
> improvement by using improved selectors as they became available.  With
> that in mind, I was just mentioning to be cautious in symbol use as some of
> these (?, ! and $ for example) have/are being considered for identifying
> the subject of a selector (in the case where you do not want it to be the
> last thing in the selector)  - and there might be some other gotchas as
> well...
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> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors4/
> http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/selectors4
> http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/selectors  <- post level 4 stuff
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> Brian Kardell :: @briankardell :: hitchjs.com
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