I know it's a pain in the arse so I won't whine.  I'll try to look at the
code and see if I can help in that area, I feel intuitively like it's a
feature that just requires some elbow grease up front before the code is too
mature to break backwards compatibility.  Without contributing a solution
I'm happy with the engine's proposed goal, which it apparently follows
though with.

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:44 PM, John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Unfortunately, at this point, that's not really happening. The
> querySelectorAll method (of the Selectors API specification) does not
> include support for namespaces - thus it's very likely that JavaScript
> libraries won't support it going forward.
>
> One thing that I'd like to fix (and I haven't checked, yet, to see how
> it works in Sizzle) is to make "div" match both <div/> and <foo:div/>
> elements. At the very least that would allow XML documents to become
> sort-of usable.
>
> --John
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:41 PM, chris thatcher
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > One thing Id like to ask about Sizzle is if it solves some of the simpler
> > namespace/xml issues that seemed none intuitive in jquery's selector
> > engine?  In general my issue has to do with being able to more easily
> take
> > advantage of extension points in the xhtml specification to use valid
> > namespaced attributes to build jquery extensions, for example
> markup-aware
> > templating like mjt (but built on jquery to reduce size, improve power
> etc).
> >
> > Thanks
> > Thatcher
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:37 PM, chris thatcher
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> You are probably aware that FF2 fails a few but thought I'd just post it
> >> back in case others are curious:
> >>
> >> 5. selector module: class (3, 13, 16)
> >> ...
> >>    12. Escaped Class (.test\.foo\[5\]bar) expected: [
> span#test.foo[5]bar
> >> ] result: [ ]
> >> ...
> >>    14. Descendant scaped Class (div .test\.foo\[5\]bar) expected: [
> >> span#test.foo[5]bar ] result: [ ]
> >> ...
> >>    16. Child escaped Class (form > .test\.foo\[5\]bar) expected: [
> >> span#test.foo[5]bar ] result: [ ]
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Anyway, good work on sizzle, and it's nice to see a broad base of the
> >> community being open to standardizing on it.
> >>
> >> Thatcher
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Dan Switzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> John,
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:02 PM, John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Are you sure that's Firefox 3 and not Firefox 3.1? Because I can get
> >>>> that selector to fail in 3.1 but not in 3.0 (that's the error that I
> >>>> was referring to in my email). Right now Mozilla appears to have
> >>>> mis-implemented the CSS :enabled selector (or, at least, implemented
> >>>> it differently from other browsers). Unfortunately there doesn't
> >>>> appear to be any consensus on what actually should be matched by the
> >>>> selector amongst browser vendors. Because of this we're going to see
> >>>> similar bugs pop up because of querySelectorAll.
> >>>>
> >>>> Test suite:
> >>>> http://ejohn.org/apps/sizzle/test/
> >>>
> >>> It passes the test in the above link. It failed when I downloaded the
> GIT
> >>> package and ran it locally. Perhaps the GIT repository is out-of-date.
> >>>
> >>> -Dan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Christopher Thatcher
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Thatcher
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>


-- 
Christopher Thatcher

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