- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 23:17:14 -0500
- To: www-dom@w3.org
The description of the whatToShow attribute in DOM3 Load and Save for
both DOMWriterFilter and DOMBuilderFilter is unclear. For example, in
DOMWriterFilter we find the following:
whatToShow of type unsigned long, readonly
Tells the DOMWriter
<http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-ASLS/load-save.html#LS-Interfaces-DOMWriter>
what types of nodes to show to the filter. See NodeFilter for
definition of the constants. The constant
SHOW_ATTRIBUTEDOMWriterFilter. is meaningless here, attribute nodes
will never be passed to a
For example, if I set whatToShow to NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT does
this mean that only element nodes will be output? or does it mean
that only element nodes will be passed to the filter for further
consideration while other kinds of nodes will be output without
being checked through the filter? A literal reading seems to imply
the former, but it's far from obvious. Clarification of the intent
would be appreciated.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
Received on Tuesday, 5 February 2002 23:16:59 UTC