- From: David Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 14:08:12 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 11:16 AM +0700 5/19/97, James Clark wrote: >Either we have sub-element addressing or we don't. > >- If we do, then we can just count/search all the data character children or >descendants of an element: pseudo-elements aren't essential. Yes, but it you use empty tags as separators (line TEI's "milestone tags"), then you can't address the things between the tags by counting. >- If we don't have sub-element addressing, what's the use of being able to >address a pseudo-element if you can't address inside it? If you want to use separators. > >Either way pseudo-elements add nothing but confusion and complexity. I guess you can use spans to pick two adjacent milestones and select the thing between them. So maybe it's not necessary, only convenient. -- David _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________
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