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Re: Behavior of namespace during appendChild

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:05:06 -0400
Message-ID: <4EB018B2.8000206@mit.edu>
To: Gerwin Jansen <gjansen@cordys.com>
CC: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, www-dom@w3.org 
On 11/1/11 11:57 AM, Gerwin Jansen wrote:
> Is there a difference in a node X created with namespace "" and a node
> Y created with namespace NULL?

http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#dom-document-createelementns 
first step says:

   If namespace is the empty string, set it to null.

DOM3 Core had similar language, as did DOM2 Core.  Does that help?

-Boris
Received on Tuesday, 1 November 2011 16:05:46 GMT

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