- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:27:38 -0400
- To: www-dom@w3.org
Quoth Claude: >I still can't quite understand why this is such an unpleasant >idea. The current DOM is very close to being able to support >this as is. The _idea_ of sharing nodes between implementations is pleasant. The thought of what could be involved in implementing it properly makes me worry about whether it belongs in the DOM or in a higher-level architecture. External entities: Strikes me as the right answer for multiple-source documents. Among other things, since applications are explicitly permitted to decline to expand the entity (if not validating), or lazily expand it, partially masks the challenge of implementing getElementsByTagName() across this boundary. Not completely, though. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research Unless stated otherwise, all opinions are solely those of the author.
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