- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:00:33 -0400
- To: "Lee Hyoung Moon" <darkness@www.paichai.ac.kr>
- cc: www-dom@w3.org
>I don't understand this sentence.
>" binding-specific casting methods ".
This means that the mechanism for accessing (for example) an HTMLLinkElement as
a LinkStyle object will very from one programming language to another, and that
the "binding" -- the language-specific version of the DOM API -- defines this
mechanism.
In the Java bindings you would use the Java typecast operation.
LinkStyle linkStyleView=(LinkStyle)myHTMLLinkElement;
But not all languages support that concept. Those which don't will have to
define workarounds as part of their bindings; one approach would be:
LinkStyle linkStyleView=myHTMLLinkElement.getLinkStyleView()
Each language binding is responsible for evaluating the available alternatives
and selecting the most appropriate solution.
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Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
Received on Wednesday, 27 October 1999 09:00:46 UTC