Re: NameList (was More comments Level 3 Validation/Edit)

Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 23:45, Curt Arnold wrote:
>  
>
>>The current public working draft of L3 Core does not define NameList.  I 
>>assume that it is defined in the current working group draft.  If 
>>NameList has a provision to creation of nodes from a name entry, then I 
>>would be satisified with the resolution. 
>>    
>>
>
>Here is the current NameList interface as defined in the incoming
>version of the Core draft (to be published really soon):
>
>// Introduced in DOM Level 3:
>interface NameList {
>  DOMString          getName(in unsigned long index)
>                                        raises(DOMException);
>  DOMString          getNamespaceURI(in unsigned long index)
>                                        raises(DOMException);
>  readonly attribute unsigned long   length;
>};
>
>It does not define a method to create an Element or Attr node, but doing
>so can be achieved easily using the createX() methods.
>
>  
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>>I do believe it would be essential to have a coordinated release of a 
>>Core public draft with the next public working draft of L3 validation.
>>    
>>
>
>Our current effort is focused on updating the Core and Load/Save drafts
>so those drafts should be back in sync soon.
>
>Philippe
>
>
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>

Adding

boolean contains(DOMString name);
boolean containsNS(DOMString namespace, DOMString localName);

might allow the elimination of ElementEditVal.isElementDefined[NS]