Re: Methods for invoking selectors are missing way how to pass namespace prefix declarations

* Jirka Kosek wrote:
>Currently DOM4 doesn't offer mechanism for declaring namespace prefixes
>which can be used in selector strings passed to API. All four methods
>(query(), queryAll(), querySelector() and querySelectorAll()) should
>provide second signature with optional object, which will hold mapping
>between namespaces and prefixes.

This came up quite a number of times during the development of the
Selectors API but nobody was sufficiently interested in the feature
to address the technical difficulties and build a consensus around
the solution, so each discussion died down fairly quickly.
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