- From: Martijn Pieters <mj@digicool.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 21:18:27 +0100
- To: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:48:48PM -0500, Joseph Kesselman wrote: > > >The W3C FAQ on DOM states that implementations that do that are in the > >wrong > > But we haven't yet given them a better alternative, and I believe we aren't > ready to make a more explicit restriction until we've done so. > > As a long-term plan, checking for this would be a good thing. When that > check will be added to the DOM spec, and when that check will actually be > performed, are yet to be determined. Probable answers at this time are "DOM > Level 3" and "only on demand". > > (I believe we did actually discuss this question before releasing DOM Level > 2, and the consensus was that enforcing this in the factory method would > have been premature at best. I'd have to dig into the archives to find an > explicit citation, and I'd rather not make that effort unless someone > thinks I'm misremembering...) Thanks for the explanation. I personally think our DOM should raise the exception, but I won't be the one that makes that decision. -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineer mailto:mj@digicool.com | Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com/ | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org/ ---------------------------------------------
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