Re: document.createElement returned instance

Thanks,

I guess I just ran through a docuverse bug, that is:

        HTMLDocument doc=new BasicHTMLDocument(new DOM());
        Element elem = doc.createElement("HEAD");
        System.out.println("elem instanceof HTMLHeadElement="+(elem
instanceof HTMLHeadElement));

gives me an output of
    elem instanceof HTMLHeadElement=false

Christophe Ney
Lutris Technologies
http://www.lutris.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Terje Norderhaug <terje@in-progress.com>
To: www-dom@w3.org <www-dom@w3.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: document.createElement returned instance


>At 1:38 PM 1/13/99, Christophe Ney wrote:
>>Here is a basic question for which I don't find any answer in the specs:
>>
>>When calling document.createElement("P") should I expect to get
>>an instance of Element, HTMLElement or HTMLParagraphElement ?
>
>As DOM providdes interfaces NOT class definitions, you should expect to get
>back an object that can be accessed using the HTMLParagraphElement
>interface. What it is an instance of is not specified. The actual class of
>the returned object is implementation dependent and doesn't have to match
>with the names in DOM.
>
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