- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:39:32 -0400
- To: WWW DOM <www-dom@w3.org>
I am still seeing people confused by the fact that createElement("foo")
and createElementNS(null,"foo") are not interchangable. Ditto for
attributes.
I can point them to DOM 2.0 Core 1.1.8, but it would be good to have an
official practical-advice summary. "Yes, they're different and not really
ineroperable. Unless you are writing a pure DOM 1.0 application, don't use
the non-namespace-aware version of these calls."
Or something along those lines, easy to find and short enough to absorb at
a glance.
(A few folks have also grumbled "why isn't that advice in the Javadoc?".
Might be worth considering for future releases.)
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Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
Received on Thursday, 17 October 2002 19:40:11 UTC