- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:12:02 +0000 (UTC)
- To: George Chavchanidze <gch@rmi.acnet.ge>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, George Chavchanidze wrote: > > > > Unfortunately CSS 2.1 is not namespace aware. I'm not sure why, as > > there are multiple interoperable implementations of the hitherto > > somewhat underdocumented syntax agreed by the CSS WG in, erm, mumble, > > 1998 or so. > > I think there is no excuse for not including namespace selectors in > CSS2.1, as this style language is expected to format XML documents, > without namespace selectors it is just incomplete. The "excuse" is that we had a feature freeze for CSS2.1 about two years ago. :-) CSS can do this; Selectors is in CR, which gives you the selector part of your example, and the @namespace rule and CSS3 Content (the two other parts) are in the pipeline. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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