- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:56:48 +0100
- To: "Jonathan Watt" <jwatt@jwatt.org>, www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:32:40 +0100, Jonathan Watt <jwatt@jwatt.org> wrote: > Would it be possible to add some sort of prefix independent namespace > support to > selectors? This would allow querySelector/querySelectorsAll (which don't > support > prefixes) to handle namespaced content. > > Perhaps something like: > > url("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace")|tag > > or: > > namespace("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace")|tag > > or: > > ns("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace")|tag > > Background: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009OctDec/thread.html#msg971 It's certainly possible, but given how rarely this is needed I'm not really convinced this is worth the added complexity. There's plenty of workarounds available at the DOM-level. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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