RE: NSResolver Re: Selectors API naming

Nope, that's what I meant.  The spec should give more examples, particularly in the simplistic cases.  The one case I wanted a definition for was if there is no doctype given on an HTML document, and there is a specific namespace given for XHTML (or whatever), does it match?  (e.g. is there a presumed doctype default for HTML in browsers, and if so what is it.  I would prefer not, BTW.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:chaals@opera.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 10:42 AM
To: Chris Wilson; Dave Massy; Web API public
Cc: Anne van Kesteren; Tina Duff
Subject: Re: NSResolver Re: Selectors API naming

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:09:17 +0100, Chris Wilson  
<Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Wow, sorry, a bunch of messages got caught in spam filter temporarily.
>
> I think the point was overcommunicating how this works in the spec would  
> be a really good idea, not "this doesn't work well."

Not quite sure I follow you, but If you mean "We should explain this in  
more detail" then I am with you (doubly so if you have proposed text and  
examples for the spec ;) ). If you mean something else, I am confused...

cheers

Chaals

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:chaals@opera.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:59 PM
> To: Dave Massy; Web API public
> Cc: Chris Wilson; Anne van Kesteren; Tina Duff
> Subject: NSResolver Re: Selectors API naming
>
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:35:17 +0100, Dave Massy <Dave.Massy@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It'd be great to have more detail and scenario on NSResolver. It appears
>> to allow elements within the document to have different prefixes than
>> things in the style sheet. For example if we map html as the prefix for
>> XHTML in our document then we’d write it like:
>> 	<html:table><html:tr><html:td></html:td></html:tr></html:table>
>> But then we can write a selector such as:
>>  “h|table > h|tr > h|td”
>> With a NSResolver that maps h to the same namespace as the html in the
>> primary document. This seems potentially confusing.
>
> Hmm. This seems blindingly obvious to me, as something that if anyone  
> ever
> forces me to hand-code I automatically do. This is how namespaces work in
> general. Admittedly, if you are sharing code snippets amongst people who
> have no shared understanding and are not really aware of what namespace
> prefixes provide (a shorthand for a simple URI-based disambiguation
> scheme), then using this feature can be confusing. I don't see that as a
> reason to disallow the use case of simplifying my half of some code,  
> since
> there is no obvious technical problem here.
>
> cheers
>
> Chaals
>



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