Re: [DOMCore] Attr

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Joćo Eiras <joao.eiras@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh, another issue is what type the Node.attributes object should be.
>> It's currently a NamedNodeMap, but that won't work since those return
>> Nodes. We could either create AttrMap interface with the exact same
>> API, except that it returns Attrs instead of Nodes, or we can remove a
>> few of the functions.
>>
>> I suggest we remove at least the mutating functions, leaving us with:
>>
>> interface AttrMap {
>>  Attr               getNamedItem(in DOMString name);
>>  Attr               item(in unsigned long index);
>>  readonly attribute unsigned long   length;
>>  Attr               getNamedItemNS(in DOMString namespaceURI,
>>                                    in DOMString localName);
>> };
>>
>
> Can't you reuse something like NamedMap<Attr> ?

We could, though it might be over engineering. And if we remove the
getNamedItem(NS) functions, then it's no longer a Map but rather
simply an array.

/ Jonas

Received on Friday, 10 September 2010 21:34:53 UTC