Re: Cut/Paste from one document to another

Daniel Glazman <Daniel.Glazman@der.edf.fr> writes:

> Espen Frimann Koren wrote:
> 
> > Yes, that is right. A document will only accept node that are created
> using ist > createX operations. This means that you have to clone the node
> you will cut > and paste, like this pseudo code:

> Thanks for that answer. I have to say that this is really a bad surprise.
> XML well-formed documents provide an easy way of fragment manipulation and
> encapsulation into other XML w-f documents but DOM1 does not allow that
> :-( In that case, DOM1 cannot be easily used out of the browser world,
> manipulating one document only at a time.
> 
> > PS! Does someone know whether this has changed in DOM 2.0? I think I have
> > seen something in the new interfaces in the spec that has this effect
> 
> I hope you are right !!!!

I don't recall seeing anything in DOM level 2 (not DOM 2.0) that changes
_anything_ in level 1.  It's all a bunch of additional interfaces that (in
my opinion) still aren't particularly useful outside the scripting
environment that the DOM is intended for. 

The DOM is most emphatically NOT a general-purpose, easily-implemented,
least-common-denominator interface for SGML.  It was never intended to be
and, as far as I can tell, never will be. 

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Received on Tuesday, 31 August 1999 13:01:47 UTC