Re: RE: RE: Should expansions be allowed in select/match strings ? (OR can you solve this without this !?)

["Alistair MacDonald" <AlistairMacDonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Mark Birbeck <Mark.Birbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 03/29 4:10 pm >>>
> 'fraid I can't help you with your relationship with your boss, 
8-)

> but I
> mentioned the things I did because the problem seems to me to be more to
> do with context than expansion.
Yes, and no.

>  According to the spec, the squiggly
> brackets should allow us to do substitutions, although IE5 doesn't do
> this yet.
The squiggly expansions are only allowed in non-match/non-select attributes, at least as I read the spec, because the expansion of those is explicitly defined, and doesn't contain references to the squiggles. In fact, they are EXPLICITLY barred within the []s as comparison MUST be made with "literal text" (See [32] in the WD)

> The problem we have - and I think lies at the root of your
> problem too - is the need to specify a filter that deals with two
> contexts, when both are variable. 
IF expansion was allowed and IF the select/match string was pre-expanded (ie before being tested) then I wouldn't have a problem either ... 8-)

Alistair


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