- From: Mike Champion <mcc@arbortext.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 22:03:00 -0400
- To: "Don Park" <donpark@quake.net>, <www-dom@w3.org>
At 09:54 PM 5/19/98 -0400, Don Park wrote: >Hi Mike, > >>>If an Attribute is a Node, and you call getParent on it, what should it >>>return? >> >>The Element (IMHO) > > >This is what I thought also until I realized that it could cause problems if >an Attribute is shared among multiple element (this could happen if the >attribute is FIXED or is inherited as DEFAULT value). That's a really good point; I'm pretty sure that one SHOULD have separate attribute objects in this scenario, but we should clarify it ... > Furthermore, I think >it is confusing to have getParent returned the element when Attribute is not >a child of the element. Yes ... but if I have an Attribute object and I want to find out which Element it belongs to, getParent() would be a logical way ... What do others think? Mike
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