- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 00:19:53 +0000
On 2/5/06, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > Probably doesn't matter which group does it since it'd end up being me > doing the work either way... Well the review processes are slightly different :) > I can certainly see myself speccing a getElementsBySelector() API as part > of Selectors 2. But either way, the spec for gEBS is simple; it returns > the same type as getElementsByTagName(), it is accessible from Document > and Element nodes and selects a subset of the descendants of that node, it > takes a single argument (a string representing a selector), its first > version doesn't support namespaces, and it raises an exception SYNTAX_ERR > if the string can't be successfully parsed by the UA. As a general outline this is very good, ducking the tricky issue of namespaces is sensible, and much I prefer this sort of proposal to a specific className one. Cheers, Jim.
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