- From: Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:08:02 +0300
- To: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Agreed in principle, but this sounds like the common “let’s turn this into a more generic mechanism” argument, which, despite sounding good in theory, usually just ends up stalling progress, as nobody wants to work on the huge problem of defining the more generic (and complex) mechanism, so the easier solution is to just do nothing. ~Lea On Jul 16, 2014, at 21:48, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote: > On 16.7.2014 19:50, Lea Verou wrote: >> Thoughts? > > In general I would rather see introduced new syntax for writing complex > expressions then randomly adding some particular functions like string > concatenation. Ideally each property could have it's value defined by > something as powerful as JS expression or XPath expression. > > See somewhat related recent thread at > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Jun/0138.html > > > Jirka > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Professional XML consulting and training services > DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 rep. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Bringing you XML Prague conference http://xmlprague.cz > ------------------------------------------------------------------ >
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