- From: Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:20:44 +0200
- To: Chris Hubick <maillist@chris.hubick.com>
- CC: www-dom@w3.org
Chris Hubick wrote: > I think navigating the tree should be left to > the user. Attributes and Children should be normal simple two way linked > lists, with the head of the list being the Node itself, and if you insert > or delete something, it's your job to synchronize the state of your > application, this should be outside the scope of DOM. Everyone > understands the behavior of a two way linked list, why can't DOM be that > simple? Because we are not defining a data model but only an API that anyone should be able to map onto his/her own (possibly existing) data model. This means, for instance, that the user just doesn't have a clue on how to actually set a node's parent, but the DOM implementation does, and will do it underneath when the user calls insertChildNode(). -- Arnaud Le Hors - W3C, User Interface Domain - www.w3.org/People/Arnaud
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