- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:12:11 -0500
- To: james.anderson@mecomnet.de
- cc: www-dom@w3.org
>As they are immutable, were they to be interned, there would't need to >be recreated. It's an old argument I think that's a detail of how the DOM is implemented and how the application drives it, rather than of how the API behaves. But your milage may vary. >As such, the namespace attributes have no purpose in the DOM They have one important purpose: If anyone has written level-1 code that provides its own namespace layer, discarding these attributes would break it. We wanted to allow existing Level 1 code to continue running with a Level 2 DOM, even if intermixing Level 1 and Level 2 calls more freely is difficult. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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