- From: Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 16:24:23 +0200
- To: www-dom@w3.org
Back to the original question whether the DOM spec should provide implementors with a way to extend the DOM by adding new node types. I'm actually sympathic with the desire to avoid possible collision with future revisions of the DOM spec. However, I don't see a real need for the spec to provide a standard way to do so. As I stated earlier, the IDL uses an unsigned short, so if you're programing in Java, you can safely use any negative value for your own node types and exception codes. In other languages, I suggest you simply use the largest numbers the actual type allows. _Practically_speaking_ I can't imagine W3C ever defining enough node types and exception codes to reach those numbers. Or there will be other reasons to be worried... -- Arnaud
Received on Thursday, 7 October 1999 10:24:35 UTC