- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:20:56 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: public-html@w3.org, "Michael A. Puls II" <shadow2531@gmail.com>
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > ... > I think to have a solid proposal we'd need: > > A) More methods than just createElement()... a big part of the concern > is using DOM APIs to deal with elements and attributes created by > parsing markup. > ... Obvious additions would be Node.expandedName plus Clark-Notation aware variants of Node.getElementByName Node.createElement Would having equivalents for everything in DOM L2 be sufficient, or are you looking for more? > B) Slightly more formal specificiation - a sample implementation in > JavaScript is not easy to read or clear about what details would be > normative. > > Assuming this aligned with the DOM Core set of methods, then probably > Web Apps WG would be the right venue for such a proposal. The venue doesn't really matter. What's important is that *if* one of the perceived problems with XML namespaces is the quality of namespace support in DOM, then some group inside the W3C should work on fixing this. > Personally, I'm still somewhat dubious of this API. Having to predeclare > all the tags you intend to use is inconvenient and may substantially You don't have to predeclare. But if you do you benefit from syntax checking (if you mistype the variable name holding the expanded name, the script will fail early). > increase code size. But it might be nicer if there were predeclared > versions of the Clark notation strings for all standard elements and > attributes. For example if you could write this without having to > predeclare anything: > > var x = document.createElement(svg.a); > x.setAttribute(xlink.href, "http://foobar.com"); > > ... then that would be pretty sweet. > ... That would require hardwiring SVG into the API. I don't think that's a good idea. If we did that, we could also do var x = document.createSvgElement("a"); Best regards, Julian
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