C2 (Re: i18n reviews of DOM 3 Core and Load&Save)

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 11:39, Francois Yergeau wrote:
> C2) Document interface, "adoptNode()" method: the fact that this does not
> throw an INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR when a 1.0 document adopts a node containing
> names not legal in 1.0 is clarified but really bizarre. Why is this
> different from importNode()?

importNode will invoke createElement in order to create the new node and
this method can throw an INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR. This is not the case for
adoptNode, which simply change the owner of the document. This explains
this difference between importNode and adoptNode.

Philippe