- From: Thomas Ashe <Thomas.Ashe@Blackbaud.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:07:47 -0500
- To: "'David Brownell'" <david-b@pacbell.net>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
On Monday, February 28, 2000 5:50 PM, David Brownell [mailto:david-b@pacbell.net] > Thomas Ashe wrote: > > > > In looking through the DOM specs, I could not discern a way > to do the > > following: > > > > Given two nodes of a common parent, identify which node > precedes the other > > in the parent's ChildNodes nodelist. > > > > Is there such a creature in the current specs? > > You'd basically look at the nodelist yourself. Takes a few lines > of code -- would you seriously expect DOM to save you the work of > writing such a simple subroutine? If so, why? > Dave, DOM allows me to access a childNode directly by using the item(index) method off of the nodelist that is returned from childNodes, rather than walking the nodelist. So, I was expecting that if I had the reference to the childNode, it would have an index property that I would be able to use for routines like this, rather than having to examine the nodelist itself. Am I really expecting too much? :-) -Tom
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