- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 11:24:59 +0000
On 2/5/06, James Graham <jg307 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Jim Ley wrote: > > On 2/5/06, James Graham <jg307 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > DOM 3 XPath is of course only defined for XML, whilst it's no trouble > > defining it for valid HTML, it's not currently, for this reason I > > would prefer just having a CSSSelector method and not bothering with > > an XPath one, defining XPath for HTML is a bit of a pain - indeed I'm > > not completely confident it's possible on an invalid HTML document > > until after the document has finished loading. > > In practice it works fine in Mozilla for HTML which, given it's DOM > functionality, isn't so surprising since both XML and HTML end up > constructing a DOM. "in practice" isn't really good enough for a specification any more, it was when HTML 4.01 or DOM 1 or DOM 2 or CSS 1 or CSS 2 came out, it is no longer, and specifications are actually getting proper reviews now. I think it would be better to just leave XPath in HTML unspecified - wish individuals and UA's luck if they want to try to use it on HTML, but don't try and help them too much. Jim.
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