Re: comment on Element Traversal Spec

Travis Leithead wrote:
> I thought that Node.nextSibling / previousSibling work this way? Isn't the whole reason for ElementTraversal to explicitly do element navigation only (a use case that nextSibling/previousSibling made more complicated for web developers)?

Having nextElementSibling available on Text and other nodes
will provide a great replacement for a code chunk the whole
web and JS chrome is full of :

   while (node && node.nodeType != Node.ELEMENT_NODE)
     node = node.nextSibling;

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Received on Wednesday, 13 August 2008 17:09:03 UTC