[Microformats-dev] in progress draft of hcard-parsing

[Bud Gibson]

My observation is that the CSS selector method is not quite up to the  
task.  For instance, you cannot use CSS selectors to select reltag  
(CSS selectors do not select on the rel attribute).  DOM selectors,  
however, will do the trick, and there are a number of implementations  
for them including XPath and ECMA script's DOM specification.

There are issues with DOM-based methods, in particular a flattening  
of the DOM tree that occurs in some implementations.  There are real  
cases where this can hurt you, but I will make those the subject of  
another post.

Bud
On Aug 8, 2005, at 13:46, Ryan King wrote:

> My favorite part about this technique is that it uses CSS selectors  
> to extract data from the (X)HTML page.
>
> /me goes to see what languages have CSS selector support
>
> Unfortunately, it appears that not many languages have support for  
> using CSS selectors to extract content. The only real example I've  
> seen is this:
>
> http://ripcord.co.nz/behaviour/
>
> Which uses CSS selectors in javascript to apply behaviors (which,  
> IMNSHO, is awesome).
>
> Does anyone know of CSS selector implementations in any other  
> languages? (besides in-browser support)
>
> -ryan
>