- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:47:47 +0100
- To: Gavin Kistner <gavin@phrogz.net>
- CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, public-webapps@w3.org
Gavin Kistner wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> Gavin Kistner wrote: >>> Section 6 states: >>> "The querySelector() method ... must ... return the first matching >>> Element node ***within the node’s subtree***." [1] >>> >>> "Even though the method is invoked on an element, ***selectors are >>> still evaluated in the context of the entire document***. >> >> This is also correct. Determining whether an Element is matching does >> not use the context node in any way (modulo a possible :context >> selector in the future). >> >> I don't see a contradiction here. > > Thank you for the confirmation that led to me re-examining what the > example was trying to show... > > I officially withdraw my comment. OK. > (Perhaps I may think of and suggest a way to make the example more clear. > One way might be to have a unique element as a child of the receiver div, > and select that instead of p elements.) Could you please clarify what you mean, or, better yet, provide an example that you believe would be more appropriate for the spec? -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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