Fwd: Re: DOM Confusion

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Lauren

>From: Ray <ray@guiworks.com>
>Subject: Re: DOM Confusion
>To: mcc@arbortext.com (Mike Champion)
>Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 10:51:04 -0600 (MDT)
>Cc: ray@guiworks.com, xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
>
>Another DOM question...
>
>
>The Element interface is defined to inherit from Node
>
>XMLNode is defined to inherit from Node.
>
>However, if one is operating on an XML document, is the Element
>interface assumed to inherit from XMLNode?
>
>We seem to have the case
>
>(DOM Core Mode)
>interface Element : Node
>interface Text : Node
>
>(DOM XML Mode)
>interface Element : XMLNode
>interface Text : XMLNode
>   ....
>interface XMLNode : Node
>
>
>It seems like there is a conflict? The problem is,
>there are two object hierarchies, with identical names
>and packages (org.w3c.dom), but which have different
>base classes.
>
>
>Multiple inheritence would work if XMLNode didn't extend Node,
>as in
>
>public interface Element extends Node, XMLNode
>
>But if it does, then all we need is
>
>public interface Element extends XMLNode
>
>which to me indicates that XMLNode is best done away with
>and subsumed into Node.
>
>Regards,
>-Ray
>
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