Sun Dec 13 05:32:46 UTC 2009 pix@kepibu.org * Add some notes diff -rN -u old-Oh, Ducks!/notes new-Oh, Ducks!/notes --- old-Oh, Ducks!/notes 2013-11-10 20:23:51.000000000 +0000 +++ new-Oh, Ducks!/notes 2013-11-10 20:23:51.000000000 +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
s and so forth. +NOTE: selectors are currently bound in parallel. That is, given + #t(html ( ...) + ( ...)) +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 ( ...) + ( ...)) +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 [
foooobar
]? + + #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).