- From: Andrew M. Kuchling <akuchlin@cnri.reston.va.us>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:06:40 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-dom@w3.org, xml-sig@python.org
Fred L. Drake writes:
>
>Gabe Wachob writes:
> > Another issue would be order of children. Without a DTD, how do you tell
> > when order of child elements is significant? Perhaps this has to be an
>
> I guess it's not that hard to just write a routine that "does the
>right thing" for exactly what is needed in each case. And it's
>looking increasingly appropriate.
Indeed; it looks like there are several different variations on what
equality would mean for a DOM node, and none seems obvious as the most
intuitive meaning for ==. So the best course seems to be to define ==
applied between nodes to raise an exception, to be changed in case DOM
Level N defines it, and have a collection of functions which implement
different equality tests.
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A.M. Kuchling http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/
The large body of the swan wedged in the shattered glass of the car windscreen
fills the film frame. Its head is bent back on itself in a parody of its
orthodox gracefulness.
-- Peter Greenaway, _A Zed and Two Noughts_ (1986)
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