- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 15:36:31 +0200
- To: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Jim Ley wrote: > Is it really logical for the W3 to have 2 selector models which solve > identical problems in slightly different ways... maybe it's an issue not > for individual working groups to solve... No it's not, but the continued existence of both is historical. To be honest, the two have very different design goals: CSS is made to select very fast in dynamically rendered situations, and in order to get there it is vastly underfeatured and in a number of cases very ad hoc compared to XPath; XPath on its side is meant to be elegant and generic, and while it'll be slower it gives one much much more expressive power. So, I don't think it'll be possible to make everyone happy by chosing one, especially as both have strong active communities. We'll have to find a third approach. -- Robin Berjon
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