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Isn't it backwards? WHATWG — there should be two implementations first.

Edit: we would not like if Chrome only feature was standardized. Lets have dialog, not silent downvotes.

XPath is great, for example

    $x('//text()[last()]')
finds last Text node. It is possible to query by text content

    $x("//a[text() = 'parent']")
finds parent links on the page. Other the years CSS adopted many selector, recent addition - :has(direct children) not implemented yet

    $("//a[img]')
works. I would like to hear other examples.

What XPath needs is modern interface like CSS has. It is easy to shim [1]

    document.queryXPathAll
That would be much better proposal

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:has

[2] http://sergeykish.com/web-api-element-prototype-queryxpathal...



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