Hello W3, I have been using the DOM for some time in an application I'm writing and I've noticed something that may be of issue: When copying (and now, importing) nodes which have "id" nodes or "idref" type nodes, the copy is immediately invalid because the id nodes are now not unique. Of course, without a DTD or schema to check against, the method won't know the difference, but, at the very least it would be nice to have some mechanism which allow id's to be-issued and give the option for idref copies to relative (refer to nodes in the copied branch) or absolute (continue to refer to the original id) where relevant. I realize the is a complicated issue, because I've had to deal with it with my software. Without going to the extra effort to validate a document or fragment, it would be nice to have a provision to allow the DOM to maintain a valid document by allowing the user to give hints to the copy and possible i mport functions. Respectfullly, Jim -- James C Moore, Vice President URS Technologies, LLC ph: 614-540-8041, jmoore@qn.netReceived on Tuesday, 27 July 1999 03:41:24 GMT
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