Re: removeChild and <use> question

Boris,

Thanks for the explanations.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 1/12/10 4:08 PM, Jeff Schiller wrote:
>> would result in someUsePointingToFoo still holding a reference to a
>> <use>  element, but it is now detached from the DOM
>
> Not at all.  It's in the DOM just fine.  However its cloned instance tree is
> now gone.  It's the same as if you had a <use xlink:href="#foo"> and had no
> node with id="foo" in the document.
>

Ok, I took Patrick's email to mean that the use element itself was
removed from the DOM.  This is what I found odd.

Jeff

Received on Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:31:48 UTC