On Nov 22, 2011, at 18:31 , Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 11/22/11 12:29 PM, Robin Berjon wrote: >>>> d - "//div[parent::*//a]"; >>> >>> (d) can be done with the new subject indicator in the Selectors 4 >>> draft: a!> div (syntax pending, but that's the general idea) >> >> I think that the example you show selects the<a> parent of a<div>, >> not<div>s that have parents containing an<a>. > > Yes, that's what Tab's selector selects too. The '!' after the 'a' is > important there.
Wait, I thought I'd grasped the gist of S4 but now you're confusing me :) My reading of Tab's selector is that it matches the <a> in <a><div/></a>. What Martin's XPath matches is the <div> in <section><div/><p><a/></p></section> (amongst many other variants). It's "all div's whose parents have an a descendent". -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
