Re: DOMKey in WD-DOM-Level-3-Core-20010136

Stanley Guan wrote:
> 
> (p. 14) Issue key-2
>    In what space is this key unique (Document, DOMImplementation)?

Document

>    Shouldn't this be DOMImplementation?  If a node3 can be adopted
>    from one document into another and "key" is readonly attribute, "key"
>    must be in the scope of DOMImplementation.

No, it just means that the user has to be careful when he moved a Node
from one Document to an other since the key might change. Note that it
doesn't prevent a DOM implementation to implement the uniquess at the
DOMImplementation level ...

> (p. 16) Issue isSameNode-2:
>    Is this really needed if we provide a unique key?
> 
>    It seems to me isSameNode() is redundant if unique key can be
>    truly unique within one specific DOMImplementation.

following our decision on key-2, we decided to keep this one (well, at least,
for the moment).

Philippe

Received on Tuesday, 20 March 2001 15:57:30 UTC