Re: Native DOM way to get nodes of arbitrary type/name

• From: Marat Tanalin <mtanalin@yandex.ru>
• Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 16:11:19 +0400
• To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
• Cc: "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <57291380975079@web14g.yandex.ru>

05.10.2013, 14:12, "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>:
> * Marat Tanalin wrote:
>
>> It would be nice to have a native (usable and performant) DOM way for
>> retrieving DOM nodes by node type (or, alternatively, by node name).
>>
>> This could be represented by these two simple methods:
>>
>>     * element.getNodesByType(type) -- to get _all_ nodes
>>       of specified type contained in the element
>>       (like `element.getElementsByTagName('*')` for elements);
>
> Use XPath

Thank you for your attention, Bjoern.

My message is not about searching for an instantaneous existing solution (nor the mailing list is a forum for questions of such type).

My message is a proposal intended to improve the DOM standard in general and to make it more universal and consistent.

XPath is not DOM or a part of it.
XPath is not as intuitive/easy-to-use as DOM.
XPath involves parsing "selector" always.

Of course, XPath could still be utilized for polyfilling the proposed DOM features in older XPath-capable browsers.

Received on Saturday, 5 October 2013 12:11:47 UTC