Could you clarify what you are trying to achieve? If we don't support, everything would be weird.
I guess you are proposing the alternative of the current pool population algorithm and pool distribution algorithm. I appreciate you could explain what are expected result using algorithms. On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:58 AM Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@apple.com> wrote: > On Apr 27, 2015, at 2:38 PM, Hayato Ito <hay...@chromium.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:18 AM Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@apple.com> wrote: > >> >> > On Apr 26, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Hayato Ito <hay...@chromium.org> wrote: >> > >> > I think Polymer folks will answer the use case of re-distribution. >> > >> > So let me just show a good analogy so that every one can understand >> intuitively what re-distribution *means*. >> > Let me use a pseudo language and define XComponent's constructor as >> follows: >> > >> > XComponents::XComponents(Title text, Icon icon) { >> > this.text = text; >> > this.button = new XButton(icon); >> > ... >> > } >> > >> > Here, |icon| is *re-distributed*. >> > >> > In HTML world, this corresponds the followings: >> > >> > The usage of <x-component> element: >> > <x-components> >> > <x-text>Hello World</x-text> >> > <x-icon>My Icon</x-icon> >> > </x-component> >> > >> > XComponent's shadow tree is: >> > >> > <shadow-root> >> > <h1><content select="x-text"></content></h1><!-- (1) --> >> > <x-button><content select="x-icon"></content></x-button><!-- (2) --> >> > </shadow-root> >> >> I have a question as to whether x-button then has to select which nodes >> to use or not. In this particular example at least, x-button will put >> every node distributed into (2) into a single insertion point in its shadow >> DOM. >> >> If we don't have to support filtering of nodes at re-distribution time, >> then the whole discussion of re-distribution is almost a moot because we >> can just treat a content element like any other element that gets >> distributed along with its distributed nodes. >> >> > x-button can select. > You might want to take a look at the distribution algorithm [1], where > the behavior is well defined. > > > I know we can in the current spec but should we support it? What are > concrete use cases in which x-button or other components need to select > nodes in nested shadow DOM case? > > - R. Niwa > >