Re: XPath and Selectors are identical, and shouldn't be co-developed

On 2011-11-29 20:07, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> ...
> Since XPath and Selectors are 95% overlapping in functionality and
> 100% overlapping in goals and overall structure, I believe it is a bad
> idea to try and develop both for the web platform.  Instead, we should
> ...

The proposal wasn't to "develop" XPath as in "doing more work on the 
expression language".

What *was* proposed is to fix/standardize the API for XPath, which 
already is part of the web platform.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 29 November 2011 20:19:37 UTC