- From: David Peterson <david.peterson@iname.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 09:39:10 +1000
- To: "DOM Mailing List" <www-dom@w3.org>
Hi there. I've been working on a concrete implementation of the current DOM spec (09 Dec) in Java, and have been wondering about the following: 1. Is it intended that different implementations of DOM can co-exist within the same Document? An example of this might be a couple of specific implementations of some XML DTDs, created by different authors, being combined into the same document. It could happen :) 2. Are we expected to attempt to cast incoming Nodes, NodeLists, etc to our implementations in order to be able to do basic things like set the Node's parent, etc. If the answer to 1. is Yes, then the current system is very inadequate. If No, it's still pretty dodgy, since we're relying on dynamic casting (which is not available in some languages) to be able to perform necessary, basic functions. 3. I noticed that 'long's are returned in both the IDL spec and the Java API. I noticed at the top that an IDL 'long' is equivalent to a Java 'int'. Should this be reflected in the Java API? Thanks David Peterson
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