Re: [ACTION-413] CSS and XPath selectors conversion libraries

Looks good to me.

Phil.





From:   Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
To:     Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>, 
Cc:     public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org
Date:   21/03/2013 09:41
Subject:        Re: [ACTION-413] CSS and XPath selectors conversion 
libraries



Hi Jirka, all

would it be OK to add some guidance about this to the CSS selectors 
section? E.g. replacing the note at

"As of writing the working group has no implememtation commitment for 
CSS selectors. If this doesn't change CSS selectors will be marked as 
feature at risk for the candidate recommendation draft."

with

"The working group will not provide a CSS selectors based 
implementation; nevertheless there are several existing libraries which 
can translate CSS selectors to XPath, so that XPath selectors based 
implementations can be used."

Best,

Felix

Am 23.01.13 17:27, schrieb Jirka Kosek:
> Hi,
>
> quick search revealed several existing libraries which can translate CSS
> selectors to XPath:
>
> http://css2xpath.appspot.com/
>
> https://bitbucket.org/MostThingsWeb/css2xpath/wiki/Home
>
> http://nokogiri.org/Nokogiri/CSS.html
>
> http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/components/css_selector.html
>
> So, even without native CSS implementations we can keep CSS selectors in
> the spec and say that it's convenient for authors and on implementation
> side this can be done using existing XPath based implementations which
> will simply convert CSS selectors to XPath expressions.
>
>                                                                Jirka
>



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