- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:35:06 -0400
- To: www-dom@w3.org
>fair to catorgise the discussion on this point and others as between >software developers who are constructing software that implements DOM >representations rather than by software developers who wish to use DOM >representations for other application purposes? I think it's just a matter of IDs having been considered a DTD issue, and DTD/Schema support not yet having been addressed. Everyone's very aware of that need. >The interpretation of >the attribute which was an IDref could then be as a reference to >another element directly. If your document edits the DOM, finding and maintaining pointers inside scattered nodes is a bit harder than changing a central indirection table. I can make arguments for either approach depending on the characteristics of an individual application set. Implementation detail rather than DOM design, though we may want to consider leaving room for that optimization when designing the API. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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