- From: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:38:44 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
> E.g. the CSS selector 'a b' is a very cheap operation, while the XPath > equivalent 'a//b' is a very expensive one. Actually they're exactly the same thing. XPath and CSS selectors are neither targeting nor selecting. CSS uses a matching alorithm _XSL:T_ using a selecting one. The problem is that even XPath has expensive axes to implement using a matching algorithm. What has been asked in the past is that XPath be used in CSS, either with the full set of axes or a limited set of axes that allow for inexpensive calculation. -- Orion Adrian
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