- From: Mike Champion <mcc@arbortext.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 09:34:45 -0400
- To: Claude Zervas <claude@utlco.com>, www-dom@w3.org
At 03:31 AM 6/1/98 -0400, Claude Zervas wrote: >Hello, > >Would there be any chance that the node tree traversal >methods in the Node interface be deprecated and sent >to some sort of work camp for bunk code patterns? This "bunk code pattern" is well-beloved by untold generations of SGML weenies ;~) who would prefer to deprecate the idea of used indexed arrays to represent document structures. It's a dilemma for us -- there's no single acceptable paradigm for document structuring and navagation that we've been able to find, and we don't want to bloat the spec by supporting everything, and (while I happen to agree with you about the iterator design pattern) iterators are not supported in any of the legacy APIs from which we're trying to build. Mike Champion
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