Re: Empty elements from Gavin Nicol on 1997-11-26 (www-dom@w3.org from October to December 1997)

From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:44:23 GMT
To: paul@arbortext.com
CC: sbi@acse.be, www-dom@w3.org
Message-Id: <199711261544.PAA03884@nathaniel.eps.inso.com>

>>Just 2 small comments on the DOM Level 1 document as of 9th of October draft.
>>1. It could be useful (if not necessary?) to have some kind of "mustOmitEndTag" attribute for the Element interface, 
>>so that an exact re-creation of the source document could be done 
>>without access to the DocumentType.
>
>Being able to recreate the source document (with or without access to
>the DocumentType) is not a goal/requirement of the DOM.

Structural isomorphism certainly is though!!!

Received on Wednesday, 26 November 1997 10:45:02 UTC