[whatwg] getElementsBySelector etc

[Dimitri Glazkov]

Just a barely relevant observation for the moment: CSS selectors
really ought to be their own language, separate from CSS spec. Kind of
like XPATH/XSLT relationship.

I am running with the microformats crowd (or should I say herd :)
occasionally, and the CSS selectors are a great fit for searching for
a format and doing things with it (trying carefully to skirt the
"binding behavior" religious debate :).

:DG<

On 9/30/05, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Erik Arvidsson wrote:
> >
> > interface GetElementsBySelector {
> >   NodeList getElementsBySelector(in DOMString cssSelector);
> >
> >   // returns true if an element matches the given CSS selector
> >   boolean matchesSelector(in Element el, in DOMString cssSelector);
> > }
>
> I agree that these would be useful. The former is even mentioned in the
> WA1 draft at the moment. However, it seems to me that this would be more
> in the realm of the CSSWG rather than the WHATWG.
>
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