Re: I18N-ISSUE-239: Selecting attributes using Selectors [ITS-20]

That depends on whom you see as your target audience. Web developers are probably more familiar with Selectors than with XPath.

Norbert


On Jan 19, 2013, at 5:29 , Yves Savourel wrote:

>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-its20-20121206/#d0e2257
>> It's sometimes necessary to select attributes, for example to declare 
>> them translatable or untranslatable (it's bad practice to have translatable 
>> attributes, but HTML has a few of them anyway).
>> Selectors don't provide a way to do that - the attribute selectors described 
>> in the Selectors spec enable selection of elements by the values of 
>> their attributes, but not selection of the attributes themselves. 
>> When using Selectors in ITS, how would one select attributes?
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> This seems to be one more reason to drop the CSS Selectors option from ITS.
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> cheers,
> -yves
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Received on Wednesday, 23 January 2013 08:37:12 UTC