I've just made a small patch to Sizzle: http://jsbin.com/omipi/edit
It works like: Sizzle("div[data.foo.bar^=12]");
I first thought of using ":" too in the square brackets but i fear
that needs a bit more hacking with other regular expressions too, but
that would work better for sure.
Just for the record I haven't seen a selector engine till now but
looking at jQuery's current one and Peppy, well, I think that would be
a nightmare to implement something like this on those (especially with
Peppy), Sizzle seems to be incomparably better designed!

On Nov 2, 10:13 pm, Ariel Flesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Seems fine to me. The ideal place for it would be inside $.expr[':']
> but I'm not sure it fits.
>
> $('*:data(foo)')
>
> No place for the value. The other option (requires modifying/
> overloading the core) would be:
>
> $('*[:foo=bar]')
>
> Where those ':' are some random character that identifies this. As a
> generic solution, I think we could add another $.expr for characters
> on this place.
> So.. one could do (f.e)
>
> $('*[~padding=0px]')
>
> As a random way of selecting by style properties. Hopefully Sizzle
> will allow this easily.
>
> --
> Ariel Fleslerhttp://flesler.blogspot.com/
>
> On Nov 2, 3:28 am, Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I was recently having a discussion with a fellow developer who was
> > writing code that set custom html attributes to various nodes to save
> > information that'd be required later when working with them.
> > I asked him why he wasn't using jquery's built-in support, Data for
> > storing that information in the nodes. He responded saying, he
> > woulnd't be able to use jquery's selectors to query against the dom.
> > $("div[custId=5]")  //etc.
>
> > That made me wonder, why isn't there some sort of support for querying
> > the values in the jquery.data from within a selector.  I'm aware I
> > could write a whole .filter(...) function but thats extrodinarily
> > wordy and defeat the purpose.
>
> > I was wondering what others thought of this, and how useful the data
> > functionality is to them in this regard.
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