- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 20:05:17 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: Stuart Ballard <sballard@netreach.com>
- cc: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>, <www-style@w3.org>
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> (In combination with something like Mozilla's XBL, this would be a
> wonderful way to do a standards-compliant alternative to MS's "smart
> tags":
>
> html.css:
>
> #xpointer(string-range(//body,"Open Source") {
> -moz-binding:
> url("chrome://navigator/content/smarttags.xml#opensource");
> }
> a.smarttag { color: green };
>
> smarttags.xml:
>
> <binding id="opensource">
> <content>
> <html:a href="http://www.opensource.org"
> class="smarttag"><children/></html:a>
> </content>
> </binding>
>
> Of course, we should make sure that it's the *user* that gets to specify
> these, not some arbitrary person, even if it's a nice arbitrary
> person...)
No need to use XPointers in selectors or proprietary technologies like
XBL. Extended XLinks do exactly what you just proposed.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/
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