- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:50:18 -0400
- To: www-dom@w3.org
In order to call the proposed DocumentFactory, you would already have had to obtain a Document from that implementation, which just pushes the problem back one level... Or it would have to be a static method, which would require hardcoding the classname (or using a class object, or reflection). So the proposal doesn't strike me as a major improvement over simply asserting that there shall be a no-arguments constructor. The one real advantage I see is that DOM implementations in languages which do not have a standard constructor syntax (such as non-object-oriented languages) would have this part of the API nailed down a bit more solidly. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research Unless stated otherwise, all opinions are solely those of the author.
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