- From: Tom Bradford <bradford@dbxmlgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 16:21:32 -0700
- To: www-dom@w3.org
Gavin Stokes wrote: > It seems that the only reason you can't just have the "value" text in > between the element tags (before or after all the subnodes) is the > perceived necessity to have multiple independent blocks of text > interspersed with the subnodes. But why should that be allowed anyway? If > you want a bunch of independent text nodes under an element, then yes, they > should have to be added as subnodes. An element should have only one > value. Wouldn't this work? <p>This is a <b>bold</b> statement</p> What's the value of p? Is it "this is a", "statement", "This is a bold statement", or "This is a <b>bold</b> statement"? The answer, of course depends on the type of application you're building, and should not be an assumption made by the DOM. -- Tom Bradford --- The dbXML Project --- http://www.dbxml.org/ Relational XML support? I liked it more when it was a CLOB.
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