- From: Jonas Sicking <sicking@bigfoot.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 03:00:33 +0200
- To: <www-dom@w3.org>
> > I don't quite understand how expandEntityReferences works on the > > treeWalker and nodeIterator interfaces > > The text is actually correct as it stands, but badly phrased. My apologies! > > "The value of this flag determines whether the children of entity > reference nodes are visible to the iterator. If false, they and their > descendants will be rejected." > > The intended reading was that "they" means "the children of entity > reference nodes". You misread it as meaning "entity reference nodes". I > have to admit it took me a second glance to realize this myself, so it's > probably worth considering this an editorial erratum. Proposed revised > text: > > "The value of this flag determines whether the children of entity > reference nodes are visible to the iterator. If false, those children > and their descendants will be rejected." > > Better? I could be nitpicking here, but really says that all decenats of entity references should be FILTER_REJECTed. But I guess that's not the intent if currentNode of a treeWalker is set to a decendant of an entity reference. So something like: "The value of this flag determines whether the children of entity reference nodes are visible. If false, the enity reference will appear to have no children." maybe? / Jonas Sicking
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