I found the reason for the problem that pixeline reported. You can
find out more at the Trac ticket [http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3757]
if you're interested :)

Cheers,
Chu Yeow


On Dec 24, 2:35 pm, chuyeow <[email protected]> wrote:
> It appears to be a problem with how the selector expression passed to
> not() is parsed (so the problem is not with the wildcard selector).
>
> I've found that this works:
>   jQuery('#ap *').not('code, #mark')
> but this doesn't:
>   jQuery('#ap *').not('#mark, code')
>
> Note the order (ID, TAG) doesn't work, but (TAG, ID) does. I'm running
> these tests on the core.js unit test for Sizzle (http://github.com/
> jeresig/sizzle/) so I don't have a test page - you can plug in these 2
> lines into the core.js unit test to run them for yourself:
>         isSet( jQuery('#ap *').not('code, #mark'), q("google", "groups",
> "anchor1"), "not('tag, ID selector')"); // passes
>         isSet( jQuery('#ap *').not('#mark, code'), q("google", "groups",
> "anchor1"), "not('ID, tag selector')"); // fails
>
> I've only managed to dig so far as notice that (TAG, ID) gets
> correctly recognized as a TAG and then an ID preFilter, whereas (ID,
> TAG) gets recognized as a PSEUDO preFilter.
>
> I believe a similar bug with the expression parsing is causing the
> problem you are reporting too Karl but I haven't dug specifically into
> your test cases yet.
>
> Hope this helps anyone looking into the bug. I'm still trying to work
> out where the expression parsing is going wrong and will report back
> if I manage to fix the bug.
>
> Cheers,
> Chu Yeow
>
> On Dec 24, 10:06 am, Karl Swedberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 23, 2008, at 5:21 AM, pixeline wrote:
>
> > > $('*', allItems).not('p, a,form').show();
>
> > > triggers this error in firebug:
> > > Error:
> > > match[3] is undefined
> > > jquery-1.3b1.js
> > > Line 1812
>
> > > testcase here:http://pixeline.be/experiments/jquerybeta/test1.html
>
> > > it seems related to the use of the wildcard '*' but you're the
> > > experts :)
>
> > I'm getting the same error without using the wildcard:
>
> >         $('li:not(:last-child)').toggleClass('highlight');
>
> >   For some reason, the error is appearing in the Firefox Error Console  
> > but not in Firebug (at least for me).
>
> > The following are not returning correct results, but they aren't  
> > throwing errors either:
>
> >         $('li').not(':odd').toggleClass('highlight');
>
> >         $('li').not(':odd:first').toggleClass('highlight');
>
> > Test case:http://13beta.learningjquery.com/13b1.html
>
> > And using jQuery 1.2.6 (working 
> > properly):http://13beta.learningjquery.com/126.html
>
> > --Karl
>
> > ____________
> > Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
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