[whatwg] getElementsBySelector etc

Dimitri Glazkov dimitri.glazkov at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 11:30:56 PDT 2005


Doh! :)

Are there any languages at the moment that utilize Selectors other than CSS?

:DG<

On 9/30/05, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> They are:
>
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/
>
> Notice that the name of the spec (despite the URI, which is that way for
> historical reasons) is just "W3C Selectors", not "W3C CSS Selectors".
>
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