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Re: dl/dt/dd matching

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"Pawson, David" <DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> James wrote:
> 
> A variation on your suggestion can handle this:
> 
> - next-element() returns the next element sibling;
> 
> - next-element(MatchExpr) returns the next element sibling if it matches
> MatchExpr (otherwise nothing)
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> DP:
> Naming, suggested improvement.
> If it deals with siblings, say so. 
> next-sibling-element()
> and
> next-sibling-element(MatchExpr)

I'd like to explore combining this with the scanning operation
discussed (perhaps only on the WG list) some time back, so that one
could specify a path for next-element/previous-element to search
along, with siblings merely being the default.  The most obvious
alternatives are (inverse) pre-order, and elders-only.

ht
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