Re: Remaining Problems with Explicit :scope Switching in find/findAll from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2011-11-27 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2011)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:39:59 -0800
To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCdHabBVVM_qko8EkXnoPMfFa7XU2RiP9_HkbL1j5kT6w@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au> wrote:
> On 2011-11-25 03:58, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> Alternately, assume that :matches() is eventually changed to allow
>> complex selectors.  Using :scope there is completely fine.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean.  The current spec for matchesSelector does allow
> complex selectors as it's defined to accept a "group of selectors"
> (selectors 3 terminology), which is equivalent to a selector list (selectors
> 4).  But :scope is still only useful when ref nodes are supplied.

Sorry for the confusion - note that I had a colon at the start of the
word, so I was referring to the Selector, not the function.  ^_^

~TJ

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