- From: Lauren Wood <lauren@sqwest.bc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 12:31:33 -0700
- To: "W3C DOM List" <www-dom@w3.org>
At 04/05/98 08:10 AM , Andrew n marshall wrote: > > If that is the intent, then Attribute doesn't derive Node in the IDL > definition. Although the concept of Attributes as Nodes never made > sense to me. Attributes are do not need any particular order, and > shouldn't be able to have children. The idea behind Attributes having children was to have something to keep the attribute value in. Attribute values can contain entity references in XML, so they can't be simple strings. What else would you suggest? You're right that attributes don't have a particular order, although I've heard complaints about that from various people. Lauren
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