- From: James Hopkins <james@idreamincode.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 01:24:45 +0000
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
>>> I also assume that it operates on all descendant text nodes
>>> (though still not crossing element boundaries)
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Because there are no text nodes containing "bar".
>>
>> Right. That is how I was imagining it.
>
> What if "bar" is split over two adjacent textnodes in the DOM?
If "bar" is split over two adjacent text nodes (e.g "b ar"), it could
be matched by ::text(b ar){}.
I personally can't envisage a use case where crossing textnodes (or
element boundaries, for that matter) in order to match a single word,
would be beneficial.
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