- From: Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 20:14:08 +0200
- To: www-dom@w3.org
msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk wrote: > > I think you're confusing the case where the new child > is not in the tree (the common case) with the case > where the parent is not in the tree (very rare).It's > only in the latter that it sort of makes sense to say > that no check is needed. But it doesn't even really > make sense here, because this is just the degenerate > case where a child is being appended to the root node > of a document: naturally the check will be quick here > because, the walk from the root node to the root node > is trivial ;-) You're right, however, the test will also be cheap in the case where the inserted node has no children. I'll admit that this not a case as common as the one I had in mind but it's still probably worth checking. -- Arnaud Le Hors - W3C, User Interface Domain - www.w3.org/People/Arnaud
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