- From: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:18:32 -0400
- To: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org, www-dom-ts@w3.org
Curt Arnold wrote: > 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. As I mentioned elsewhere, it does matter for languages which support named parameters at the call site. Philippe Le Hegaret writes: > To be sure I understand the rational here. How about DOM Level 1 and > DOM Level 2 production of the test markup languages? I'd say it sounds more like an unintentional inconsistency in the specifications, and issuing an errata making the names consistent would make more sense in the long term. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
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