> I'm actually not sure. How often do authors want to get the third child > without knowing anything more about it than that it's an element? > Iterating through the kids (by means of ET or '.childNodes') gives you > much more context information (what type of element it is, what it's > bbox is, whether or not it has text/child content, etc.). Not trying to > be a pain, but can you identify a concrete use case? [admin: please Cc me, I am not following this mailing-list] I probably has to use it in my daily code - find the n-th child element of another given element - at least a dozen times in the last fifteen days. Iterating through the kids is a for my point of view pure bloat compared to myFooElement.childElements.item(3)... </Daniel>Received on Friday, 28 March 2008 18:28:22 UTC
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