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Re: Implementing NodeList

From: Mike Champion <mcc@arbortext.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:07:37 -0400
Message-Id: <98Jul27.190402edt.26881@thicket.arbortext.com>
To: "Don Park" <donpark@quake.net>, <www-dom@w3.org> 
At 05:52 PM 7/27/98 -0400, Don Park wrote:
>Fellas,
>
>This confusion stems from the movement of words between different versions
>of the spec.  If you read the latest spec more carefully, you will see that
>the word "live" is used only in the description of the attribute
>"childNodes".  This means that the NodeList itself is not always live and
>that the NodeList returned by getElementsByTagName is not live.  Only the
>NodeList returned by getChildNodes is "live".
>
>Does this help?

Thanks, I think you're right!  

mike
Received on Monday, 27 July 1998 19:07:32 GMT

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