Jörn Zaefferer wrote: >> I understand the CSS selector and have read the other thread but a >> true namespace selection based on xpath syntax doesn't work. As >> for writing a plug-in, I believe the issue could be corrected with >> a change to a regular expression. But, reg exps are, by their >> nature, difficult for me to tinker with, and I can't figure out >> which regular expression is used for node and attribute filtering. >> >> I asked about this back in September and am asking again because I >> believe better xpath support would improve jQuery's handling of xml >> docs as well as xhtml pages. > > The problem: Mixing XPath and CSS selectors is very limited. And as > more users of jQuery are familiar with CSS then XPath, there is much > more support for CSS then XPath. To fully support XPath you have to > remove a lot of CSS selectors.
Or escape the expression so we know it is explicitly XPath, or provide a separate function that is dedicated to XPath. -Steve _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
