Re: Usage of null

I believe the only places where the DOM uses null values are when an
attribute is expected to be an object, so it should always be possible for
each of the DOM's language bindings to provide a suitable "null object".
And I believe we do provide an indication of how nulls and empty strings
are interpreted; in general, they are NOT considered interchangable. If you
can cite specific places where those practices have been violated, we
should definitely take another look at them. Otherwise, I think this is
implementable as it stands.

The "abstract" IDL shown in the body of the DOM spec is not guaranteed to
be fully compliant OMG IDL. We know there are some keyword clashes, for
example. The OMG seems to be aware of this and has not complained; instead,
their response has been to try to develop a separate IDL binding for the
DOM, just as there are bindings for other languages. I believe that binding
does attempt to take advantage of valuetypes.

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

Received on Monday, 18 September 2000 13:25:42 UTC