Re: Type-safe iteration over the DOM in DOM 2 & 3? from Joseph Kesselman on 2001-03-20 (www-dom@w3.org from January to March 2001)

From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:21:29 -0500
To: www-dom@w3c.org
Message-ID: <OFFC8CB7D7.9DFB366B-ON85256A15.006A0806@pok.ibm.com>

>If you don't subclass your DOM classes heavily and
>dynamically, it probably does not matter, but if you do,
>it does not lead to nice code.

Dynamically subclasing the DOM wasn't  reallyone of our usecases for DOM
Level 2. The "Embedded DOM" work in DOM Level 3 plays into that space to
some degree, and might address some of what you want to do.

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

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