- From: Werner Donné <werner.donne@re.be>
- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:11:43 +0200
- To: Pascal Schmitt <pascal@cebra.nu>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Pascal,
I would welcome XPath in CSS, but then the XPath specification
should introduce the notion of specificity, otherwise the cascading
mechanism can't work. Look at how XSLT works around that problem
to see how valuable cascading is.
Werner.
Pascal Schmitt wrote:
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>
>
>
> Hello!
>
> The Question was mentioned here, I saw it in the archive, but I want to
> ask it again in a modified form:
>
> What about using XPath with CSS?
> It could be integrated easily, using the XPointer-Fragment:
>
> #xpointer(//element[child/@attr = 'foo']) {
> color: red;
> }
>
>
> Or for content, with a new xpath-Pseudomethod:
>
> p::after {
> content: xpath(img[0]/@alt);
> }
> table::after {
> content: "Total " xpath(count(tbody/tr)) " lines";
> }
>
>
> As said in the archived posts: it is no problem for todays user-agents
> to use XPath, they often build a DOM-Tree anyway�
>
> --
> Pascal Schmitt
>
>
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