- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:24:58 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org, Daniel Glazman <daniel@glazman.org>
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >> * XBL 2.0 [...] does not explain how to resolve conflicts between >> namespace prefixes in selectors being case-insensitive, and prefixes >> in Namespaces in XML being case-sensitive. > >> * "Selectors API" [...] does not define how to handle case diferences >> either, > > I think the best way to handle this would be for the Selectors spec to > define that the case sensitivity of the namespace prefix depends upon > the mechanism used to declare it. > > I think it could possibly be handled by adding a statement like the > following to the Case sensitivity section [1]: > > The case sensitivity of namespace prefixes in selectors depends on the > mechanism used to declare them. For example, prefixes declared using > @namespace in CSS are case-insensitive, whereas prefixes declared > using xmlns are case-sensitive. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-selectors-20051215/#casesens Nice. That would also match the way element type selectors behave. ~fantasai
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