Closed Bug 649731 Opened 13 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Make lookup expressions 'deterministic' (also make them not suck)

Categories

(Testing Graveyard :: Mozmill, defect)

Product:
Testing Graveyard
Component:
Mozmill
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: ahal, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [mozmill-next?][mozmill-2.0-]) 

In bug 639638 I added a small patch to allow users to select an element from a list with the '/[0]/' syntax. This can be used like so '/{"flex":1}/[0]/'.

This is not deterministic (not sure if this is the right word) because if the flex:1 part returns more than one element, the first item in the list will be returned by the /[0]/ part. If the flex:1 part only returns 1 element, then the first childnode of that element will be returned by the [0] part.

Harth suggested using notation like '/{"flex":1}[0]/ to select from lists instead.
Depends on: 639638
Whiteboard: [mozmill-next?][mozmill-2.0-]
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Testing → Testing Graveyard
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