RE: adding addressing capabilities to the DOM

• From: Aaron Skonnard <aarons@develop.com>
• Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 20:48:33 -0600
• To: "www-Dom" <www-dom@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <NDBBJHEMDDKHIDLCDFAOOENPCIAA.aarons@develop.com>

>
> The way I understood the demand, it's not for a generic querying interface
> but for specifically XPath navigation support.  Since XPath is a W3C
> Recommendation and that WG did not specify a DOM interface, it's up to the
> DOM WG to do so --- or to continue the status quo of multiple inconsistent
> APIs that do this.  I agree that we should make it clear to the Query WG
> that the Right Thing to Do is to specify the API implications of what
> they're doing, but that is irrelevant to the question at hand: a
> request for
> XPath support in the DOM.
>

I agree 100%.

-aaron

Received on Monday, 17 April 2000 22:50:09 UTC