- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 15:45:55 GMT
- To: david.peterson@iname.com
- CC: akirkpatrick@ims-global.com, www-dom@w3.org, mcc@arbortext.com
>This is something I raised a while back, and currently, the answer is no - >that is, the current dom interfaces don't have enough methods for this to be >possible. Eg there is no setParent() method for a Node, so you can't >genericly set the parent - you have to cast to an internal, proprietry class >to do that. I think the intent is for the DOM to be fairly orthagonal in this regard (basically, every getXXXX() has an equivalent setXXXX()). So comments like this are very valuable.
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