Re: DOMException: NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERROR

Won't trying to set nodeValue on an Element also throw?

Bob Foster
WebGain

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Kesselman" <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
To: "David Flanagan" <david@oreilly.com>
Cc: <www-dom@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: DOMException: NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERROR


>
> See recent discussion in the archives of this mailing list: Descendents of
> an Entity andEntityReference nodes and their descendents are read-only. So
> are Notation nodes (The DOM's index and glossary pages are useful for
this;
> looking in the index found this fairly quickly)
>
> This exception may also be thrown in some cases if the specific operation
> is forbidden in this node -- eg, trying to set nodeValue for an Entity
> node.
>
> The DOM does not say there aren't any other ways that nodes can become
> read-only. We may add APIs to control that in the future. And some DOM
> implementations have implementation-specific mechanisms that may cause
this
> to happen.
>
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