On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov <a...@webkit.org> wrote: > > XPath 2.0 is not fully compatible with 1.0. JavaScript API for XPath doesn't > provide a way to choose version - at least, it didn't when I last checked. > So, we can't really support 2.0. >
I'm not sure that turns out to be a real issue considering this particular context. I've been shopping this idea around here at the W3C TPAC meeting and many of the incompatibilities may not occur within the context of the browser with a pre-built DOM. I'll have to dig further on that. It is certainly flawed that you can't choose a version. Unfortunately, there isn't a good way to test for XPath 1.0 but you can use an XPath 2.0 only expression to test for XPath 2.0 support. This should be fixed in the API. Also, we can't expect to stay at XPath 1.0 forever. At any rate, this would be considered completely experimental. -- --Alex Milowski "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language considered." Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
