- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:11:24 -0500
- To: "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org>
- Cc: Dieter Köhler <dieter.koehler@ppp.uni-bamberg.de>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
> What I *would* like is a way to determine that a DOM object is > read-only; Other than trying it and letting it throw the exception, I presume <smile/>. Currently, the only officially-blessed condition under which nodes become readonly is when they're within the value of an EntityReference. There is some interest in coming up with a more official definition of read-only documents or subtrees -- it's on the Open Isses list -- but at this time it's unclear how much of that might or might not be included in DOM Level 3; it's not currently one of our top priorities, though the XSLT folks have inquired about it since they want a way to say that their input tree Must Not be altered during stylesheet processing. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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