- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:51:32 +0200
- To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:25:18 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: >>> * IMHO the method should not raise an exception when the selector >>> contains a pseudo-element. It should would return an empty list. >> >> Given that it per definition only returns Element nodes I don't see why >> it shouldn't raise an exception. > > I think exceptions should be reserved for actual syntax errors, not for > selectors that can't match an element. I'm sure there are other ways > besides pseudo-elements to make a selector that can't match anything. The current specification http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/webapi/selectors-api/draft/selectors-api.htm?content-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8 should reflect this. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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