- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:51:54 -0500
- To: <www-dom@w3.org>
>: how come there are no method that allows an Element to get only the child elements specified by their tag name? The DOM doesn't provide every possible convenience function. It provides the essentials, and some conveniences which have specific historical or efficiency justifications. If we don't provide a function, write your own support routine that does. In this case: You could write an appropriate filter to test the "tag name", and plug it into a NodeIterator or TreeWalker. But it may be easier and possibly more efficient to write a get-next-sibling-and-test-node-name-and-type loop. Given that it's so easy to do either way, there's really no need for the DOM to supply a canned version. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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