- From: Aaron Skonnard <aarons@develop.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:47:57 -0600
- To: "Paul Tchistopolskii" <paul@qub.com>, <aaron@skonnard.com>, "Xml-Dev@Xml. Org" <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Cc: <www-dom@w3.org>
[inline] > > Also: > > Isn't: > > NodeList getElementsByTagName(java.lang.String tagname); > > a degenerated form of : > > NodeList getNodes(scheme, expression, currentNode) > Similar...but getElementsByTagName only returns Element nodes by name where XPath expressions are capable of returning all *core* node types, not just element nodes. It really makes sense to have the API available on the Node interface because relative expressions can be applied to all *core* node types (element, attribute, text, comment, pi). > Currently getElementsByTagName resides in Document > interface. > Yes, but it also exists in the Element interface (it's just in Document for convenience). If this API is in the Node interface, it's available everywhere. -aaron
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