Re: DOM Level 3 XPath Specification and entity references from David Brownell on 2001-10-10 (www-dom@w3.org from October to December 2001)

From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:52:04 -0700
To: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>, www-dom@w3.org
Message-id: <1d9001c151ab$e457c7a0$6800000a@brownell.org>

> (If XPath and DOM hadn't diverged, this kluge wouldn't be necessary

... I presume that any discussions about converging the data
models haven't been successful?  

The DOM house has a little too much gingerbread for most
purposes I've seen.  Better defaults would help ... such as
saying that boundaries for entity refs and CDATA will be
ignored by default when building a DOM tree.

- Dave

Received on Wednesday, 10 October 2001 12:53:51 UTC