- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:14:58 +0200
- To: W3C CSS List <www-style@w3.org>
- CC: www-dom@w3.org
I first proposed this on the WHATWG mailing list[1], but Ian told me I
could better address it here.
Simon Willison once made a sample implementation[2] of this function in
Javascript:
# document.getElementsBySelector('div#main p a.external')
#
# This will return an array containing all of the links that have
# 'external' in their class attribute and are contained inside a
# paragraph which is itself contained inside a div with its id
# attribute set to 'main'.
I hope this made it clear how it should work.
Currently there are only methods available that require knowledge of
XPath[3] (although that is just a note, not a real standard yet) by the UA.
[1]<http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2004-August/001945.html>
[2]<http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/03/25/getElementsBySelector>
[3]<http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20040226/>
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
Received on Saturday, 28 August 2004 17:15:19 UTC