- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:27:47 -0400
- To: www-dom@w3.org
Yes, Alan, you've read it correctly. >My current (mis)understanding is that when an element is created using >Document.createElement that it is not yet part of the document hierarchy. True. It has an ownerDocument (the Document whose factory you used to produce it), but has no parent or siblings; you've created an "orphan" node. It has no parent until you insert or append it to another node. >these newly created nodes can node <sic> be found by any of the methods used >to traverse the document tree I presume you meant "can not be found" -- which is entirely correct. >a Document object that is used to create an Attribute object with >Document.createAttribute() would not return that Attribute Also correct. It isn't an attribute of the Document -- in fact, Documents can't have Attributes -- and it isn't an attribute of any Element until you assign it to one. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research Unless stated otherwise, all opinions are solely those of the author.
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