- From: Jonathan Watt <jwatt@jwatt.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:16:09 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: public-webapps@w3.org
On 2009-11-26 1:16 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> Jonathan Watt wrote:
>> Maybe the working group could consider adding some sort of "non-prefix"
>> namespace support to selectors for the sake of querySelector/querySelectorsAll,
>> something like:
>>
>> [url("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace")|id="foo"]
>
> Your proposal would require modifying the syntax of Selectors, which is
> out of scope for this working group.
You're right, I'll email the CSS WG.
> As for the issue of resolving namespace prefixes, the previous attempt
> at including them in the API proved to be a very difficult, time
> consuming and costly effort that failed to reveal substantial use cases,
> nor find a viable solution. As such, my current position is that there
> has been insufficient justification provided for spending such
> significant time and effort addressing this issue.
I don't think supporting prefixes in querySelector makes much sense.
Jonathan
Received on Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:16:12 UTC