- From: Manos Batsis <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:07:20 +0300
- To: "Ian Hickson" <ianh@hixie.ch>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ianh@hixie.ch] > XPath is newer than selectors. This is the third release of the Selectors > language, which was first released as part of CSS1 in 1996. It is rather ironic; I can use "html:td/xed:area" in IE (with Jscript; bliah) but I can't use htm\:td > xed\:area (Damn thing does not understand '>'). Let's not even get into complicated CSS selectors. Go figure... > Selectors are designed with dynamic environments in mind, making them very > suitable for things like web browsers, which may try to match several > hundred selectors against several thousand elements every time the user > moves the mouse. XPath is significantly harder to optimise for cases like > this, as might be expected as it was designed to be complete, not dynamic. Does this relate with all the API debates going on and the close relationship between XPath and DOM implementations? Kindest regards, Manos
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