- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:59:00 -0400
- To: "Garret Wilson" <garret@globalmentor.com>
- Cc: "www-dom list" <www-dom@w3.org>
DOM Level 3 has been looking at this. There are some slightly ugly issues regarding the fact that some DOMs may want to subclass themselves based on the DTD and/or the root element's namespace, so there are definitely cases where you do _not_ want to allow the document to be created before the root element is known... but there are also cases where it's more reasonable, so the DOM may be able to permit it for _some_ implementations. Still being researched, as far as I know. Meanwhile, all I can suggest is buffering the incoming data -- or otherwise looking ahead -- to obtain the information required by createDocument before it's needed. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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