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

Yehuda Katz
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>wrote:

> * Yehuda Katz wrote:
> >Most people would accomplish that using jQuery. Something like:
> >
> >var previous = $(current).closest("tr").prev()
> >
> >I'm not exactly sure what `current` is in this case. What edge-cases are
> >you worried about when you say that the JavaScript is "quite involved"?
>
> It is unlikely that your code is equivalent to the code I provided,


Out of curiosity, I'd like to see the DOM in question, the starting element
and the element you were trying to select. I think "how people do it in the
real world" is actually relevant.


> and
> sure enough, you can point out in all discussions about convenience APIs
> that people could use a library. I don't see how that is relevant here.
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