- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:56:48 +0100
- To: "Jonathan Watt" <jwatt@jwatt.org>, www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:32:40 +0100, Jonathan Watt <jwatt@jwatt.org> wrote:
> Would it be possible to add some sort of prefix independent namespace
> support to
> selectors? This would allow querySelector/querySelectorsAll (which don't
> support
> prefixes) to handle namespaced content.
>
> Perhaps something like:
>
> url("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace")|tag
>
> or:
>
> namespace("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace")|tag
>
> or:
>
> ns("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace")|tag
>
> Background:
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009OctDec/thread.html#msg971
It's certainly possible, but given how rarely this is needed I'm not
really convinced this is worth the added complexity. There's plenty of
workarounds available at the DOM-level.
--
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
Received on Monday, 30 November 2009 07:57:33 UTC