- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:23:56 -0400
- To: www-dom@w3.org
I have previously suggested that DOM Level 3 add some form of getType() method to the Attr interface to report the type of the attribute declared in a DTD. One important use-case for this information is any XPath based application such as XSLT and XPointer which need to behave differently depending on which attributes have type ID. I was told that this information would be available through abstract schemas. Now that abstract schemas has gone to that great web site in the sky, I'd like to reraise this issue. I think a simple method in the Attr interface which returns the type as declared by the DTD is important. I think this is a separate issue from the type declared by any schema, since a document may have both a DTD and a schema. How to handle this for schemas is relatively hard, but handling it for DTDs is not. SAX has been doing this for several years 9albeit with a few bugs in both interface and implementations.) The exact signature and behavior can be discussed, but I would really like to have this information available as a standard part of DOM. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold
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