Re: Selectors API Method Names

* Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>One problem is the use of "select*" is similar to the .NET XPath methods 
>(selectSingleNode/selectNodes), though the use of Element instead of 
>Node reduces the confusion slightly.  Those are also proprietary methods 
>that aren't used outside of .NET (The DOM3XPath standard uses evaluate() 
>instead.).

Here you forgot to list MSXML, Internet Explorer through MSXML, Adobe
Flash, Apache Xalan, JDOM, dom4j, Jaxen, XML::DOM::Lite, and many more,
and it has long since been agreed upon by the WebAPI group to add the
methods to DOM Level 3 XPath, precisely because they are so widely de-
ployed.
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Received on Saturday, 23 June 2007 20:17:55 UTC