Stephen Woodbridge schrieb: > 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
This fits into the "What to strip out for 1.1" discussion, I assume. I only use XPath when traversing through XML documents, so maybe XPath support could go into a plugin as well. I think this was discussed before... -- Klaus _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
