- From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:13:59 -0400
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
Daniel Glazman wrote:
> > *:protocol("mailto"):before { content : url(envelope.png) }
>
> Interesting. Looks more or less like an attibute selector maching the first
> chars of the value of the attribute... I'd rather see in CSS the regexps
> that some contributors to this list call for :-)
How about possibly -- for consistency's sake -- some of the XPath functions,
like starts-with(), contains(), substring(), substring-before(),
substring-after(), etc.? The substring* functions could used for content
generation in :before and :after pseudo-elements.
Just a thought. I also see that on the agenda for the next generation of XSLT
is the possibility of regexp. Keeping X* and CSS in any kind of sync in these
areas might be akin to squaring (angle-bracketing?) circles, but where there's
overlap of functionality, at least *exploring* overlap of technique won't hurt.
/Jelks
Received on Saturday, 15 April 2000 14:15:32 UTC