- From: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:57:20 -0400
- To: "Curt Arnold" <carnold@houston.rr.com>
- Cc: <www-dom@w3.org>, <www-dom-ts@w3.org>
Curt Arnold writes:
> Document.getElementsByTagName's parameter is named "tagname",
> Element.getElementsByTagName's parameter is named "name". Doesn't
> matter in the big scheme of things but it does complicate
> production of the test markup language. If possible, could
> parameter "name" be changed to "tagname" in DOM L3 Core.
This is also something which matters for languages in which
parameters may be identifed by name at the call site:
o = get_document_or_element(...)
o.getElementsByTagName(tagname="abstract")
While most users will use the positional syntax, this would typically
be expected to work in Python.
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
Received on Thursday, 25 October 2001 12:05:34 UTC