The W3C has
announced
a Last Call Working Draft for "CSS3 module: W3C
selectors", a specification describing selectors that could be used by
"other languages that may need them".
Although
the new document doesn't include any history section, it may be noted that some
of the additions suggested after the previous draft have been included.
Commenting
on this Working Draft, Robin Berjon has proposed
the unification of XPath, selectors and XQuery:
I know that there are
differences (for instance XPath would know nothing of :hover for instance) but
there are also common elements. It would be nice if implementers could create a
selector API that could be driven likewise by various syntaxes. That way you
just have to plug in a parser for the syntax, and voila ! you can start
selecting out of a DOM tree.
The Last
Call period will end on March 1st.
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