- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:58:11 +0200
- To: public-webapi@w3.org
Hi, If an attribute node stores a selector and the in-scope namespace declarations are to be used to expand names in the selector, the most natural way to set that up would simply be with example.querySelector(attr.value, attr.lookupNamespaceURI); Or with a wrapper function if necessary to the same effect. However, due to differences between the resolvers this might not work as ex- pected, in particular, Core's lookupNamespaceURI expects a "null" argument to find the default namespace, but the querySelector imple- mentation would pass the empty string (presumably Core should accept the empty string aswell), and if an XML 1.1 document uses <example selector='a|b' xmlns:a='' ...> The expected result would be that only 'b' elements in no namespace would be matched, but per "If there was no NSResolver object provided, or if the method returns an empty string or does not return a DOMString, the prefix represents an unresolvable namespace" the code would actually match 'b' elements in any namespace and elements in no namespace. This difference should either be removed or be explained in the document. For the other issue, either querySelector passes null to get the default namespace, or an issue against DOM Core should be filed. regards, -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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