- From: Stephen R. Savitzky <steve@crc.ricoh.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 1998 14:53:26 -0700
- To: keshlam@us.ibm.com
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
keshlam@us.ibm.com writes:
> Unless, of course, my understanding of getElementsByTagName() is incorrect
> and it really means "get immediate children by tag name", which would make
> the whole problem cheap enough not to have to worry about... but the
> description of that method says it searches the subtree.
I don't see how getElementsByTagName could _possibly_ return a ``live''
NodeList unless one of the following two conditions is true:
1. it only returns immediate children of the given node, AND the indices
of those children in the NodeList returned are the same as their
indices in the parent node, i.e. there are some indices that contain
nulls.
OR
2. Elements found by getElementsByTagName are _ripped out_ of their
original places in tree, and made into the children of a single,
possibly orphan, Node.
--
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Received on Monday, 27 July 1998 17:49:40 UTC