- From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:59:11 +0100
- To: "Alexandre Rafalovitch" <arafalov@socs.uts.EDU.AU>, <www-dom@w3.org>
Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafalov@socs.uts.EDU.AU> wrote on 16 October 1997 02:37: >These are comments on DOM Level 1 document as of 9th of October draft. >In Element: > There might be comments inside the tag (eg <foo --this is foo-- bar=val> > Am I correct in understanding that comment node should be generated for > that and returned in getChildren() call, but not in getAttributes() > call. The alternative is to not represent in-tag comment in DOM. What > about error nodes. (I know they should not happen, but....) Comments are not allowed in SGML/XMl start-tags or end-tags. If they are allowed in HTML (which I doubt) we can forget the idea of associating DTDs with HTML! >In PI: > I don't know about XML, but isn't PI ends with >, not ?>. In HTML > is used as the PIC delimiter, in XML ?> is used for the same delimiter. What is important is to know what the apporpriate SGML declaration says should be used as the PIC delimiter. >Whitespace for HTML: > If I have a sequence of whitespace, would the corresponding TextObject >contain a single whitespace or multiple whitespace? Basically, whether >space collapsing should happen before or after DOM? Before
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