- From: Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde@carewolf.com>
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:35:48 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Saturday 08 March 2008, L. David Baron wrote: > After reading the text: > # The :nth-of-type(an+b) pseudo-class notation represents an > # element that has an+b-1 siblings with the same element name > # before it in the document tree, > in http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-selectors-20051215/#nth-of-type-pseudo > it is not clear to me what "the same element name" means. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names-20060816/#concepts defines > three types of names. Given the element: > <html:p xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" /> > these names are: > expanded name: the pair of strings ("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "p") > local name: the string "p" > qualified name: the string "html:p" > > css3-selectors should define which of these three names are referred > to by the definitions of :nth-of-type() and :nth-last-of-type() (and > thus, by reference, :first-of-type, :last-of-type, and > > :only-of-type). > > I strongly prefer that it is the expanded name that matches. > > I wrote a testcase at > http://dbaron.org/css/test/2008/of-type-selectors . The only > implementation I could find that produced sensible results (Opera > 9.5 beta) uses the expanded name (but doesn't support xmlns=""). > Konqueror 3.5.9 seems to parse the testcase as HTML instead of > XHTML, and Safari 3.0.4 fails the control test and matches item (2) > (along with (1), (4), and (5)). > Konqueror will need a base XML mimetype like application/xml or text/xml to trigger the XML parser. We use the HTML parser for XHTML just like MSIE which seems a lot safer. `Allan
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