- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:25:56 -0500
- To: "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
>Furthermore, if the element is part of an entity, then no single index >will work, as the element node may be in the tree in multiple places. This gets into questions of whether multiple copies of an entity share the same nodes or not... and how the user can tell. I'm not sure that the DOM makes any promises either way. Some of the open questions about how parsed entities and namespaces interact make that sharing less likely than it once was. Reminder, since we're on the topic: node identity does not require object identity. In some DOM bindings, asking whether it's the same object is not the right test. One of the outstanding issues is the possibility of adding a Node.isSameNode(Node) test, which would work in all bindings. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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