- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:52:09 -0500
- To: "Chris Wilson (PSD)" <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>, "'Paul Prescod'" <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, "'w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org'" <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
At 09:26 AM 11/15/96 -0800, Chris Wilson (PSD) wrote:
>Sorry, I haven't been paying as close attention to this list as perhaps
>I should have. What's the problem with CSS using '.' as a class
>selector indicator?
It is a useful SGML NAME character:
<THIS.THAT ID="Introduction.Opening.Paragraph">
Since the SGML Reference Concrete Syntax ("regular SGML") doesn't allow
underscore as a word-joiner, the loss of "." is a problem.
Paul Prescod
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