Hi. This kind of feature was originally part of an earlier MSXML implementation of namespaces selectors. There's no official documentation available, neither in the IE's branch nor in the MSXML library. I spoke with Alex Mogilevsky (IE development team) a couple of years ago when I submitted my tests for the IE 8 test suite. He gave me many links on the MSXML library and I made an extensive research on that matter without finding anything significant.
This feature will probably work even in the future, at least until the MSXML library will be still part of IE. Surely it will be removed when IE will switch to a native implementation of XML. Besides, many JS libraries use this feature to allow for XML parsing during AJAX requests. However, IE6 doesn't support XML rendering natively, nor IE 7 (which shows a DOM tree). IE 8 shows the document, but all the styles are completely messed up. HTH :-) http://www.css-zibaldone.com/ http://www.css-zibaldone.com/test/ (English) http://www.css-zibaldone.com/articles/ (English) http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/ (English) ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
