- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:36:08 -0500
- To: "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org, "Fred L.Drake" <fdrake@acm.org>
>Is an implementor allowed to change the value of the whatToShow >attribute once parsing has begun See past discussion re filtering in the Traversal chapter. The decision there was that whatToShow was not mutable (allowing it to change seemed to unreasonably constrain implementations), but you can achieve the desired results by specifying SHOW_ALL and then make all the decisions, including node-type, dynamically in your filter logic. I'd avoid doing something different here unless there is an extremely good reason, simply to ease the task of learning how to use the DOM. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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