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Robin Berjon wrote: > Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > >> Thanks Robert. Fortunately, I only have to contend with IE for this >> project. Closed worlds are scoped worlds by definition. ;-) > > > Unfortunately, IE is such a poor excuse for a browser that you won't be > able to do much with CSS. IE only does tagsoup rendering, you're feeding > caviar to the pigs. yea, well, so you consider 80-90% of users pigs. interesting. (oh, I see -- *.fr) can you tell me about another browser that handles it? can you tell me about another browser that has the ability to do schema validation of xml? (seriously -- I'm interested) > >> On the other hand, if the namespace prefixes are different, why the >> backslash? > > > Because ':' is a special character in CSS, and has to be escaped if you > want it to be part of a name selector. > >> Considering that CSS is in it's own syntax, and inside a comment, >> there is a distinctly weird feel to the concept of it having ANY >> impact on the XML namespaces. Obviously it does. Is that informally >> specified, formally specified, or just another "gotta do it somehow >> because of legacies" solution? > > > CSS is *not* in a comment, that's just a broken hack. CSS has the > ability to match on element names, and naturally this includes the > ability to match namespaces. >
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