I have tried it, but it yields no results when searching for elements. What I loved about the xpath functionality was that I could have used the same functions on XML documents, not only on XHTML.
I suppose another feature that has been lost is the custom psuedo selectors. On Jan 28, 3:54 pm, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote: > On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Neil Craig wrote: > > > > > Earlier version of jQuery allowed one to search for elements using > > XPath, but after the implementation of the Sizzler selector engine, > > the XPath support was lost, or so it seems. > > > Any comments? > > Hi Neil, > > You're right that 1.3.x removed support for the [...@attr] syntax, but it > had been deprecated already for a long time. Using [attr] will achieve > the same thing. > > As of jQuery 1.2 (released Sept. 24, 2007), basic XPath such as > location path expressions, was removed. There is an XPath > compatibility plugin for those expressions > athttp://plugins.jquery.com/project/xpath/ > . Is that no longer working for you? > > --Karl > ____________ > Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
