Re: essential test cases?

At 09:23 AM 6/15/00 -0400, keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote:
>>How do you get the base URI of the Document?
>
>... Good question. I could have sworn we added that, but apparently not.
>"Oops." Not a disaster since theoretically your application knows which
>document it loaded and can store that somewhere... but it probably should
>be part of the DOM.
>
>>This seems to me a major deficiency in DOM Level 2
>
>The DOM has known gaps. We're making mistakes as fast as we can. I'll make
>sure base-URI is on the Open Issues list.

Be sure to include some kind of handling for when no base URI is available;
Infoset might need to do the same thing.

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

Received on Thursday, 15 June 2000 09:30:59 UTC