- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:51:27 -0500
- To: Stefan Wachter <Stefan.Wachter@gmx.de>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
>1. wholeText attribute: >What is the expected use case of this attribute? One use case: Impedence matching between the DOM and the XPath Data Model. XPath sees all adjacent text as a single value; this attribute permits the DOM to support that by returning the first text node and assuming the caller is clueful enough to retrieve wholetext rather than just nodevalue. It's arguably just a convenience method, but a useful and frequently requested one -- especially given the proposal that the DOM provide an XPath API. No, it _shouldn't_ be on the parent; there may be non-text children as well, and wholeText just accesses a single adjacent text block rather than all text children. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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