Re: importNode

Just like I said!

keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> > Actually, not "all" the information.  If the node is of some subtype
> > that the "importing" DOM doesn't fully recognize, that information
> > can't be imported.  Examples include additional attributes and of
> > course any specialized methods the original subtype supported.
> 
> I don't think we _forbid_ copying additional information, if your
> implementation happens to recognize the source node as belonging to an
> implementation that it knows how to handle (itself, for example). But we
> can't require that, because in the general case all that we know about the
> source node is that it's a DOM Node.
> 
> ______________________________________
> Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

Received on Friday, 3 March 2000 15:08:59 UTC