- From: Mark Hellegers <M.H.Hellegers@stud.tue.nl>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:06:03 +0100
- To: <www-dom@w3.org>
> Don't confuse IDL attributes with implementation fields. An IDL >attribute is just a value you can read or set. Where it's stored is a >completely separate issue, and is up to the implementation. > >The DOM API says that the Attr node's value is always equal to the >concatenation of the values of its Text descendents, and that when you >set this node's value that's taken as a request to replace those >descendents with a single Text node containing the new value. I don't >think we actually said whether it will be a new Text node, or whether one >of the existing Text children of the Attr (if any) will be reused by >having the new value assigned to it. I believe either is acceptable. I'm sorry, but I can't find where it is stated that the Attr node's value is constructed that way. Now I read it again, I can see that the value is not primarily the value of nodeValue, but it is not made really clear what it is. Thanks, Mark Hellegers
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