Sun Dec 13 05:32:46 UTC 2009 pix@kepibu.org

* Add some notes

--- old-Oh, Ducks!/notes 2013-07-24 10:33:41.000000000 +0000

+++ new-Oh, Ducks!/notes 2013-07-24 10:33:41.000000000 +0000

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@

** Loading

Loading "Oh, Ducks!" is just like loading any other ASDF system.

However, because it does not mandate a particular HTML or XML parser,

-it does not generally become useful until you have also loading an

+it does not generally become useful until you have also loaded an

HTML/XML parsing library such as cxml or closure-html.

Start with:

@@ -75,11 +75,22 @@

Each selector should result in the same elements which would be

affected by the same CSS selector. That is,

- #id => elements with id of "id".

+ #id => elements with id of "id"

.foo.bar => elements with both "foo" and "bar" classes

div => all <div>s

and so forth.

+NOTE: selectors are currently bound in parallel. That is, given

+ #t(html (<selector-1> ...)

+ (<selector-2> ...))

+selector-1 and selector-2 do not interact. If they are both "foo", they'll

+return identical results. I often find myself wanting to also say something

+like:

+ #t(html (<selector-1> ...)

+ (<element-after-selector-1> ...))

+Ideas for a syntax to distinguish between the two cases are welcome (:mode

+parallel) vs (:mode sequential), perhaps? (Or even adjacent, sibling?)

+

*** Limitations

Currently, selector terms are limited to alphanumeric characters, and

@@ -142,3 +153,11 @@

** Submit patch to cl-unification to add (enable/disable-template-reader) functions

** Submit patch to closure-html to add (enable/disable-reader) functions

** non-css templates (e.g., for matching on text of element)?

+Maybe special-case string/regexp-templates, so for example

+ #t(html ("div" (#t(regexp "f(o+)bar") . ?div)))

+would match [<div>foooobar</div>]?

+

+ #t(html ("div" . #t(regexp "f(o+)bar" (?o))))

+might cause some difficulty, however--we should get a list of matched elements

+for the div selector, but the regexp variable (?o) can only match once (without

+some wacky environment merging, anyway).