- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:12:13 -0500
- To: "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
Dieter wrote:
>So what's the reason, why removeAttribute does not return the
>attribute's reference?
Compatability with "DOM Level 0".
>BTW: If the applications mixes namespace and non-namespace methods for
>adding nodes in the following code
>MyAttr:= MyElement.getAttributeNode('xyz');
>MyElement.removeAttribute('xyz');
>the first line might return another node than the second removes.
I believe our intent was that the behavior would be consistant;
removeAttribute will remove the same attribute that getAttributeNode would
return. We should probably add that to the last paragraph of section 1.1.8.
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Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
Received on Friday, 17 March 2000 15:13:12 UTC