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[John Cowan] > Chris Maden scripsit: > > > "[W]ill" in what sense? In the sense that IE 5, developed before > > the current namespace spec does this? In the sense that you think > > it might. [s/b "might?".] > In the sense of clause 5.4 of CSS2: "A type selector matches the > name of a document language element type". The name, not the > UniversalName. Yeah, but when that was written, the colon wasn't a legal name character. (Well, strictly, it was legal but reserved.) Trying to argue that namespaces are broken, because something that doesn't know about them doesn't work with them, is broken. > > The behavior of CSS in the presence of namespaces is undefined. > > But I have every reason to expect that it will follow the > > (soon-to-be-)defined behavior of XSL, which is that the universal > > name is compared. > > "Every reason" as in "reasons you can't talk about"? No; it's just the sensical thing to do. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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