Re: QSA, the problem with ":scope", and naming from Boris Zbarsky on 2011-10-19 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2011)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:15:28 -0400
To: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <4E9E24B0.9020102@mit.edu>

On 10/18/11 7:38 PM, Alex Russell wrote:
> The resolution I think is most natural is to split on ","

That fails with :any, with the expanded :not syntax, on attr selectors, etc.

You can split on ',' while observing proper paren and quote nesting, but 
that can get pretty complicated.

> A minor point is how to order the
> items in the returned flattened list are ordered (document order? the
> natural result of concat()?).

Document order.

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 01:15:56 UTC